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What do we do when time ends? Tori Kudo and Sarah Hennies in conversation
This past May, Sarah Hennies and I sat on a rock near the Tivoli train tracks that overlooked the Hudson River, gushing in shared reverence over the great Japanese composer and ceramicist Tori Kudo and his enduring, happy accident-prone collective Maher Shalal Hash Baz. I was surprised that Sarah and Tori had never crossed paths,…
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A Circle With Four Corners: Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson’s Rough Thoughts on Composition
I have decided to put down some thoughts about composition on “paper.” I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time but never found a suitable occasion. Maybe it’s a rough draft of or for something. I divided my thoughts into four parts that roughly correlate with what many people supposedly associate with the…
Alvin Curran, alvin lucier, Beethoven, Bellini, Brahms, Charles Ross, Charles Taylor, Christian Wolff, contemporary classical music, Dainin Katagiri Roshi, Fats Domino, Frank Denyer, Frescobaldi, Handel, Haydn, Helmut Lachenmann, Horațiu Rǎdulescu, Iceland, james tenney, just intonation, liszt, Little Richard, Luciano Berio, microtonality, morton feldman, Mozart, Papua New Guinea, Pauline Oliveros, Peter Ablinger, Pitch, S.L.A.T.U.R., Time, Trees, Wagner