Only a few of my beautiful things (part 1)
The number of blogs on the internet is somewhat overwhelming, but I still enjoy sifting through site after site, searching for the perfect ‘beat’, so to speak (with apologies to Gilles Peterson). It...
View ArticleTheme for August: "Quiet Music"
This month in Classical and Experimental Music (as well as related genres and subgenres), I would like to focus on “quiet music.” William Cosgreve wrote the oft-misquoted line “music has charms to...
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Far from the madding crowd
Noa Noa (Fragrant, 1992) by Kaija Saariaho for flute and electronics, (electronics produced at the studios of IRCAM) duration: 10 minutes Saariaho: "Noa Noa (Fragrant, 1992) was born from the ideas I...
View Articlelowercase sound: whisper the songs of silence
This is reprinted from a 2002 article in Wired. [read original] I ran across this concept sometime last year and have been very fascinated by the austere aesthetic.Whisper the Songs of SilenceBy...
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Curator's Corner: PastPresent
Who listens to the ubiquitous noises that envelop us? Why should we take any more seriously those notes that are written within the limitations of a musical score compared to the sounds that are...
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A Little Night Music
…a thank you goes out to Adam for the wonderful idea of ‘quiet music’… I’d like to introduce a wonderful site I’ve been following for some time now. Marc Weidenbaum of Disquiet http://disquiet.com/...
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An Introduction: Some Art, Some Sound, Some Talk
New Adventures in Sound Art Presents… Heads up, everyone! The good folks at NAISA (New Adventure in Sound Art) have an excellent line up for their 8th Annual SOUNDplay Festival. What is the...
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New Adventures in Sound Art Presents…
Artist Talks & Workshops: All workshops at the NAISA space located at the Artscape Wychwood Barns 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON Pre-registration is required. Registration for these courses can...
View Article10 for 2010 Continued: PLOrk
One artist on my list is actually a collective of numerous artists. Formed by professors Perry Cook and Dan Trueman, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, or PLOrk for short, has brought a newfound...
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We’re not in Kansas anymore…
Earlier in October I attended the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche event in Toronto. I did a lot of walking, ate some popcorn, had some tea, and walked some more…I made this video based on photos taken with...
View ArticleThe Sonic Arts Research Centre
From September 2007 to September 2008, I worked on my MA at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. SARC is a great place with a lot of interesting people and projects. I just...
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In Brief: Watch what you hear (part 1)
Erwin Redl, known for his large-scale LED installations, has created "MATRIX II", a room-size piece of phosphor green LEDs, that creates a physical space that fools the viewer into thinking the space...
View ArticleThe New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival(NYCEMF - or "nigh-semf") is an exceptionally well-run festival gearing up for it's second year. I was fortunate enough to have a piece programmed last...
View ArticleIn Brief: Messiaen's Oraison
Recently I discovered the first video below by Richard Lainhart, performing Olivier Messiaen's Oraison for six Ondes Martinot (1937) on a Buchla synthesizer controlled by a Haken Continuum Fingerboard....
View ArticleComposer Dilemmas: Different Contexts, Different Versions?
In this series titled "Composer Dilemmas," I would like to relfect on issues in the process of composition. How deterministic will this piece be, performance-wise? Once 'finished,' does it remain so?...
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