All the Tired Horses
There is a cloudy line between noise and sound, routine and ritual.
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...moreThe clash of opinions about music is music itself.
...morePerhaps 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.
...moreMusician and producer Roarke Menzies talks about his debut album, Shapes, and about his inspirations for making music.
...moreSo 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 and open it to divine influences. This seems to depend on whether we have chosen it or it has been forced upon us. Over at Lit […]
...moreLate 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 and memories as well as writings on philosophy and politics. Cage often wrote in random type fonts, sizes, and colors, which is reflected in the […]
...moreComposer 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.
...more…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.
...moreWe 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.
...moreOften, 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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