Category: new music

I am now feeling as though I was a bit hasty in yesterday’s criticism of Kyle Gann’s post, “Almost all is Vanity”. I was angry when I read it because it seemed to me that here was …

My wife just walked in and saw the title of this post as I working on it, and figured I was writing about our almost-two-year-old, busy whining in the next room about matters large and small.  Actually, though, I’m writing …

“If [interest in art-making], and everyone has it, is a component of the ordinary life, if it is free primarily to play the part of the, or a, reflex, subconcious-expression, or something of that sort, in relation to some fundamental …

These are kinda cool looking.  But I think the scores themselves in many cases are works of art in their own right, and I’m not sure that the artist adds much.  I suppose it’s nice, though, to see the …

[ Note: It has been a very busy couple of months, between finishing grad school apps, applying for residencies, festivals, and the like, and I have been beyond remiss in updating the old blog.  Apologies to my huge swaths of ...

Went tonight to see the Asphalt Orchestra at Lincoln Center Out Of Doors. Asphalt is a 12-piece marching band (piccolo, soprano, alto, and tenor saxes, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, sousaphone, and 3 drummers) whose repertoire includes arrangements of everything …

HAUSCHKA – Eltern // live in the Berger Kirche from realiction on Vimeo.

Anyone who’s gotten an e-mail from me in the past couple years has seen, down at the bottom, beneath the, “All best, Aleksei”,  my favorite Morton Feldman quote: “Down with the masterpiece, up with art.”

Composer Brad Lubman devotes a few …

Daniel Wolf suggests the possibility of twitter scores.

Very interesting idea. My first crack at it:

FILL IN THE GAP

i love the internet.  i’ve been listening to a lot of new music at home of late, not being able to get out to many concerts with my 5-month old.  i found wnyc2 a month or two ago, which …