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		<title>art on music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are kinda cool looking.  But I think the scores themselves in many cases are works of art in their own right, and I&#8217;m not sure that the artist adds much.  I suppose it&#8217;s nice, though, to see the scores have another life.
I&#8217;m very grateful to know, though, about Anestis Logothetis, who&#8217;s score is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>he had blisters on his fingers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I owe a huge debt of gratitude to guitarist James Moore.  This past Saturday, James and I workshopped and recorded my new piece, Study No. 1 for amplified acoustic guitar (a section of the score of which I put up in my last post).  He played the hell out of the piece, and in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study no. 1 for amplified acoustic guitar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ 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 regular readers.    I hope to resume a regular posting schedule going forward. ]
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2010/02/10/study-no-1-for-amplified-acoustic-guitar/</link>
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		<title>Electronic Music at Cafe Orwell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be playing a show at Cafe Orwell in Bushwick on Friday, December 11, at 7:30pm.
The show will feature 3 pieces from the past couple years, performanced by Jessica Schmitz, James Moore, and Eleonore Oppenheim, and a laptop duet with one of my favorite electronic composers, Jennifer Stock.  Here&#8217;s the program:
Slipstream, for flute and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Space @ The Stone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Supove has put together a wonderful lineup of shows at The Stone this month.
Happily, she saw fit to ask me to put something together as well.  I&#8217;ll be performing with cellist Jessie Marino and flutist Jessica Schmitz on Tuesday, October 27th at 10pm.
It&#8217;s been an interesting experience preparing for this show, my first real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2009/10/13/the-third-space-the-stone/</link>
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		<title>a great post from Kyle Gann</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following was written by Kyle Gann, on his blog.  I liked it so much I decided to post the entire thing.  Here&#8217;s the original link: http://bit.ly/PQxhX


Words from a great composer:
There was an agreement among journalists after about 1970, when America took a sharp turn to the right, to call all music that did not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2009/08/11/a-great-post-from-kyle-gann/</link>
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		<title>street music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 from bjork to Zappa to nancarrow.   The music is interesting, challenging, and incredibly fun.  The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>odd &amp; lovely</title>
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HAUSCHKA &#8211; Eltern // live in the Berger Kirche from realiction on Vimeo.
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		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2009/08/04/odd-lovely/</link>
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		<title>Algorithmic pattern-seeking?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(cross posted at cog and sprocket and is it luck?)
My wife does a lot of work with data visualization, in which she extracts patterns and stories from large data sets and represents them visually through graphic design or animation.  It&#8217;s a really interesting and elucidating way of making sense out of huge amounts of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2009/07/15/algorithmic-pattern-seeking/</link>
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		<title>death to the masterpiece</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who&#8217;s gotten an e-mail from me in the past couple years has seen, down at the bottom, beneath the, &#8220;All best, Aleksei&#8221;,  my favorite Morton Feldman quote: &#8220;Down with the masterpiece, up with art.&#8221;
Composer Brad Lubman devotes a few minutes to the idea of the masterpiece as it relates to music in our time [...]]]></description>
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