Summer 2012

issue # 113

Sound notes

Rose Bolton

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 [...]

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Eliot Britton

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 [...]

Read more » Gloria Lipski »

Paris, France

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 [...]

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Jeff Morton

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, [...]

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Features

Derek Charke

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[...]

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Jean-François Laporte

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[...]

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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[...]

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Visions of sound

Years

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 [...]

Read more » Bartholomäus Traubeck »

Reviews

R. Murray Schafer. My Life on Earth and Elsewhere.

The Porcupine’s Quill.

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Linda Jansma and Carsten Seiffarth, eds. Gordon Monahan: Seeing Sound: Sound Art, Performance and Music, 1978–2011.

Doris McCarthy Gallery.

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Burkhard Beins, Christian Kesten, Gisela Nauck, Andrea Neumann, eds. Echtzeitmusik Berlin: Self-Defining a Scene.

Wolke Verlag.

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Merce Cunningham Dance Company: the final Event. NYC, USA. December 31, 2011.

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Thomas Tilly & Jean-Luc Guionnet. Stones Air Axioms.

Helix/Circum-Disc LX005.

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Stone Quartet. Live at Vision Festival.

Ayler Records AYLCD-124.

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Keith Rowe & John Tilbury. E.E. Tension And Circumstance.

Potlatch P311.

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Quatuor Bozzini. À Chacun Sa Miniature.

QB 1113.

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Parker, Lee, Evans. The Bleeding Edge.

Psi 11.10.

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Francisco López. Untitled #275.

Unsounds 26U.

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Le Quatuor de Jazz Libre du Québec. 1973.

Tenzier TNZR051.

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Lama. Oneiros.

Clean Feed CF240.

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Ion Zoo. Venus Looks Good.

OpenForm Audio 091108.

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Eleanor Hovda. The Eleanor Hovda Collection.

Innova 808.

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Craig Hilton & Tomas Phillips. le gout de néant.

Absinth Records 019.

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Eric Chenaux. Guitar & Voice.

Constellation CST088.

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Tim Brady. 24 Frames—Scatter.

Actuelle AM 206 CD.

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Christian Bouchard. Automacité.

empreintes digitales IMED 11108.

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