Hacked-toy installations
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY I imagine that what I hear echoing off the walls of the white-cube gallery is the proceedings of a robot congress, a cacophonous, [...]
Sound notes
Composes moments of emotional intensity
Rose Bolton speaks clearly about what she wants. “I think clever would be the word that I would not want to hear people use when speaking about my music—regardless of [...]
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY By his own account, Eliot Britton’s music treads dangerous territory. “I represent huge problems with art music and the [...]
Fête de la Musique, June 21, 2011
On June 21, 1982, the French Ministry of Culture introduced the first Fête de la Musique (meaning celebration/feast of music, and a homophone of Faites-musique—make music), a large [...]
Features
One language is never enough
Derek Charke is irresistibly attracted to the North. In 2006 he found himself in the Yukon, dogsledding with the Kronos Quartet. For a composer with a love of the Arctic it doesn’t get better, or[...]
Builds sound totems to the future
A maze of thin, transparent hose bundled by lock ties runs along the walls and floors of a spacious studio painted white from floor to ceiling. At the back of the studio near a tool and supply[...]
Cassandra Miller's Unclassifiable Concert Music
"WHAT IS ART IF IT DOESN'T REMIND US OF THE POWER OF THESE EXPERIENCES, THAT WE CAN FEEL THIS WAY?"
If you had just commissioned Cassandra Miller to write a new piece of music for you, she might get the ball rolling by chuckling and then asking you, “What do you sing when you’re[...]
Visions of sound
The history of a tree’s growth translated into sound
Years is a sound installation for modified record player that examines the disparity between the experience of time passing and time as an objective quantity. The piece uses a turntable [...]
Reviews
Doris McCarthy Gallery.
Wolke Verlag.
Thomas Tilly & Jean-Luc Guionnet. Stones Air Axioms.
Helix/Circum-Disc LX005.
Keith Rowe & John Tilbury. E.E. Tension And Circumstance.
Potlatch P311.