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All the Tired Horses

  • Sara Gelston Somers
  • October 14, 2021
There is a cloudy line between noise and sound, routine and ritual.
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  • Rick Moody
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Swinging Modern Sounds: Observations on the Occasion of a 100th Column

  • Rick Moody
  • December 3, 2020
The clash of opinions about music is music itself.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #84: Music for Spaceships

  • Rick Moody
  • November 9, 2017
Perhaps space is an inevitable resting place for music of this kind, because time is completely different when conceived of in the vastness of space, and not only because of relativity.
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The Rumpus Interview with Roarke Menzies

  • Kristen Felicetti
  • December 30, 2015
Musician and producer Roarke Menzies talks about his debut album, Shapes, and about his inspirations for making music.
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The Sound of Silence

  • Victor Luo
  • December 17, 2015
So while silence can most certainly be boring, unsettling, unbearable, it can just as certainly be an aid to concentration and thus free the imagination. It can quiet the mind…
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John Cage’s Diary

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • October 20, 2015
Late composer and writer John Cage’s diary is being published in late October. John Cage: Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) contains Cage’s stories…
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The Rumpus Interview with Frederic Rzewski

  • Joel Hoffman
  • July 6, 2015
Composer Frederic Rzewski talks about his masterpiece The People United Will Never Be Defeated, writing and playing classical music, and performing his music in an unusual venue—a fish market.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #57: Going Long, in Four Parts

  • Rick Moody
  • September 1, 2014
...if you want more, the music can meet you where you are. It can instruct on the meaning of music itself, on its history, on its cross-cultural possibilities.
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The Rumpus Interview with Missy Mazzoli

  • Joel Hoffman
  • June 5, 2013
We talked to composer-performer Missy Mazzoli about the sometimes invisible world of new classical music, her relation to it, and what she’s doing to help to redefine what it means to be a composer in the 21st century.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #43: Formative Experiences

  • Rick Moody
  • March 22, 2013
Often, I find, the musical experiences that have had the most lasting impact on me were not immediately apparent to me at the time.
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