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		<title>busy week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This coming week is a really interesting one.  Four performances, all very different.
Tomorrow (Monday, 6/21), Mantra Percussion is performing if when without itself, for 3 drumsets and (wii-controlled) electronics as part of the annual Make Music NY festival (the performance is in the archway under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, and starts at 5pm.  More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too quick to judge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am now feeling as though I was a bit hasty in yesterday&#8217;s criticism of Kyle Gann&#8217;s post, &#8220;Almost all is Vanity&#8221;.  I was angry when I read it because it seemed to me that here was Kyle Gann, a successful composer, author, and educator &#8211; someone who&#8217;s shoes I&#8217;d love to be in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2010/06/18/too-quick-to-judge/</link>
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		<title>Almost all is whining</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;m writing because I&#8217;m very disappointed today to read Kyle Gann&#8217;s latest blog post.  In it, Gann [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2010/06/17/almost-all-is-whining/</link>
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		<title>Some thoughtful words from Lawrence Dillon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Dillon recently put up this post on Sequenza 21.  It&#8217;s a short, but powerful assessment of the state of the orchestra today.  I am in the beginning stages of a new work for orchestra, and Dillon&#8217;s piece definitely gives me pause.  Click on the link above, or read on:
A recent red-eye from LA to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2010/06/08/some-thoughtful-words-from-lawrence-dillon/</link>
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		<title>It will be loud, though</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I often write at the Connecticut Muffin near my apartment in Brooklyn.  It&#8217;s not my preffered workspace, but such is life with a toddler who won&#8217;t stand not to be playing with you if you&#8217;re in the apartment (despite the loving attention of his wonderful grandmothers). My poor study lies fallow&#8230;
I end up rather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2010/05/26/it-will-be-loud-though/</link>
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		<title>upcoming performances with Mantra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very excited to be working on a new piece with the percussion group Mantra.  The piece is for 3 drumsets and gesture-controlled electronics (my fancy way of saying that one of the &#8220;sticks&#8221; at each of the drummers&#8217; disposal will be a wii remote).
The premiere will be June 12 at the CD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2010/05/16/upcoming-performances-with-mantra/</link>
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		<title>From &#8220;Postface to 114 Songs&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;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 share in the common work of the world, as things go, is it nearer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2010/05/09/from-postface-to-114-songs/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2010/02/19/art-on-music/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.alekseistevens.com/2010/02/15/he-had-blisters-on-his-fingers/</link>
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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>
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