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Questions I Ask Myself

At the last New Music Gathering, Elliot Cole shared a list of questions that he’s been wrestling with—questions about culture and career choices, about what his music can offer others as well as how it shapes his own life. They are tough questions, but he also found them helpful and clarifying. Others agreed and asked him to share them more widely, which he has generously done here.

Stefania de Kenessey: 20 Years After Rewriting History

In 1997, composer Stefania de Kenessey launched the Derriere Guard movement to promote a "return to long-forgotten, long-abandoned ideas rooted in history and tradition” but now, 20 years later, she...

From the Machine: Realtime Algorithmic Approaches to Harmony, Orchestration, and More

This week, Joseph Branciforte shares some algorithmic techniques that he's been developing in an attempt to grapple with some of the compositional possibilities offered by realtime notation. However, he also...

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Delays, Feedback, and Filters: A Trifecta

Interaural time difference, interaural level difference, and head shadow are useful not only for an audio engineer, but are also important for us when considering the effects and uses of...

From the Machine: Realtime Networked Notation

The possibility of instantiating realtime compositional intelligence in machines holds the most radically transformative promise for a paradigmatic shift in music in the years ahead.

Delays as Music

The use of delays in music is ubiquitous. We use delays to locate a sound’s origin, create a sense of size/space, to mark musical time, create rhythm, and delineate form.

Progressive Chamber Music

The aesthetic of the Sirius Quartet and our Progressive Chamber Music Festival is an expression of the ongoing blending resulting from the gradual breakdown of the barriers between contemporary academic...

From the Machine: Computer Algorithms and Acoustic Music

Western music has made use of rule-based compositional techniques for centuries, but with the advent of realtime computing and modern networking technologies, new possibilities can be imagined. A composer’s live...

Live Sound Processing and Improvisation

Over the past 5-7 years there has been an enormous surge in interest among musicians, outside of computer music academia, in discovering how to enhance their work with electronics and,...

Building Audiences for Post-Genre Artists

Not only does genre-based language mislead listeners about post-genre music, but it also affects how the music itself is monetized and thus how artists make their living and find their...

The Role of Listeners in a Post-Genre Context

If a composer has no intent of writing within the “classical” genre label, then attempting to understand the piece through a classical lens is irrelevant. But what about the listener?...

Notes from the Custerdome: A Jazz Appreciation of Steely Dan

Steely Dan proved that pop music could be harmonically complex and quirky in the early to mid-'70s, when the then-new FM format allowed for longer cuts, and more expansive playlists,...

Thinking About Language in a Post-Genre Context

Hannah Schiller’s research into polystylism in today's new music led her to question the utility of a genre-based framework entirely. But when those terms are absent, how do we create...

Remembering Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017): A Citizen of the “Fourth World”

According to Tommy McCutchon, "'Fourth World Music' has become a dominant sub-genre designation for any music that combines avant-garde electronic processing with a mélange of world music aesthetics." But Halim...

TODAY'S COMPOSER BIRTHDAY

Ned Rorem

Born: Tuesday, October 23, 1923 Richmond, Indiana, USA | NewMusicbox article | NewMusicbox article | NewMusicbox article

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