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The Sunday Round-Up on Soundcloud
For this evening’s outing, offered is an collection of some pieces of experimental and improvised music for which the instruments are not simply the tools, instead to a large extent constituting what...
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The Sunday Round-Up on Soundcloud
Today’s roundup of tracks on Soundcloud is one part contemporary classical, one part experimental, and one part deep-house party. We shall start with a new work by the Istanbul composer Mithatcan Öcal,...
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Ein Vortrag zu Tona Scherchen
(An apology seems to be in order for the irregular schedule of posting on this website of late. Work on the bipartite project I mentioned previously concerning the composer and multimedia artist Tona...
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This Week’s Tracks from Soundcloud
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I shall have to see whether a Soundcloud round-up will continue to be offered with regularity every Sunday, as by doing so it may become a bit too much of a...
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Some Remarkable Releases
Halfway through the year is as fitting an occasion as any for compiling an assortment of several remarkable pieces of music offered to the public more or less recently, most of them having been...
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On Marc Yeats (An Appreciation)
aan Arthur Olof, in herinnering (The text that follows is the fruit of around three weeks of work, and one which developed a will of its own as it grew, filling itself out to a considerable length –...
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The Fires of August (Part II)
Heraclitus was most profound when he addressed the λόγος at work in the human soul: here one is least sure one comprehends all that he himself meant by these terms, here the possibilities of dispute...
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The Fires of August (Part I)
This summer rushing by, one can say with nearly no exaggeration, has shook to the noise of outbursts around the globe, while now the clamor is churning during the very month in which, a century ago,...
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This Week’s Tracks from Soundcloud
Today’s selection of tracks from Soundcloud will come right to the point, as I’ve got a lot on at the moment (amongst which work on a few texts I hope to feature here soon). First of all is a track...
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This Week’s Tracks from Soundcloud
This evening, the tracks are from Germany, or else about that country. To begin with, a set of “Vier Erloschene Bilder” by a young experimental-minded composer in Berlin, John Strieder – a...
View ArticleThe Fires of August Part ii
Heraclitus was most profound when he addressed the λόγος at work in the human soul: here one is least sure one comprehends all that he himself meant by these terms, here the possibilities of dispute...
View ArticleThe Fires of August Part i
This summer rushing by, one can say with nearly no exaggeration, has shook to the noise of outbursts around the globe, while now the clamour is churning during the very month in which, a century ago,...
View ArticleThis Week’s Tracks from Soundcloud
Today’s selection will come right to the point, as I’ve got a lot on at the moment (amongst which work on a few texts I hope to feature here in the near future). First of all is a track from a...
View ArticleThis Week’s Tracks from Soundcloud
This evening, the tracks are from Germany, or else about that country. To begin with, a set of “Vier erloschene Bilder” by a young experimental-minded composer in Berlin, John Strieder – a...
View ArticleAn Exhibit of Zero in Amsterdam
Currently and for the next few months on view in the Stedelijk Museum here in Amsterdam is an exhibition devoted to the artists from a number of countries who, during the late 1950s and early 1960s,...
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One year ago today the Netherlands introduced the so-called “green-pass” system. A day of great and indelible infamy. What follows has been written in sorrow as this anniversary approached....
View ArticleHa desaparecido la música
This music has disappeared. Such was my first thought when a song issued last December to which I wanted briefly to recur, now was no longer found under the Internet address on the system where it had...
View ArticleFirst Thoughts About the Spanish “Deep Song”
For Andrés One hundred years ago, at the Centro Artístico in Granada, on the evening of February nineteenth a talk on that variety of Andalusian music the Cante jondo, “deep song,” was delivered by...
View ArticleThe Light This Time
Στον Φώτη Spritely though our stride may be, here and now, not least with the current vernal quickening, nonetheless, encompassed as we are by so many disasters, where is the corner around which the...
View ArticleNihil sub sole novum est – Im Westen ein neues Nichts?
Whether the terrible farces on today’s world-stages did enact once more some pieces from the tragedies of years gone by, shoddily? – a question these times will leave behind themselves, in a better...
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