Linda Bouchard's Murderous Little World
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Couple Linda Bouchard’s vision and sound with poet Anne Carson’s texts, engage the talents of a host of collaborators, [...]
Sound notes
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NEW SPECTRAL MUSIC
An eighty-four-foot, mixed-media triptych spans a wall at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With three huge scrolls, each three feet high, arranged on the wall in three rows, it’s an [...]
Mark Peter Wright
“I grew up in a tiny village in the North Yorkshire Moors,” explains British sound artist Mark Peter Wright. “I was always outdoors, and I collected anything and everything: [...]
A Few More Words About Times Square
First-place winner of Musicworks’ 2012 Sonic Geography Writing Contest
Max Neuhaus’ permanent sound installation, Times Square (1977–1992; 2002–present), has become a place that I visit every time I find myself in New York City. There is [...]
Features
SOUND SHAPE SHIFTER
It’s a sensation particular to staying up all night—that in-between place on the cusp of complete exhaustion and utter lucidity, where fatigue and receptivity somehow reach a simultaneous peak. No[...]
From guildhall to grime time
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Growing up on the outskirts of London, kids are drawn to the city by any number of attractions, from shops to sport matches,[...]
Polyrhythmic virtuoso
Pheeroan akLaff believes in drums first, rather than last. He can drive an ensemble forward with the machine-gun attack of his snare and the rolling thunder of his bass and toms,[...]
Visions of sound
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY The title Kymapetra is a combination of two ancient Greek words, kyma meaning a wave or vibration, and petra, which means stone. Every [...]
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How To Hack An Audio Greeting Card
Bring on the chipmunks and demon-voice audio!
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Reviews
Kay Larson. Where The Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists.
Penguin Press.
Shackle. Shackle Stick and Shackle Multiplayer Music Game.
Self-released 2012.
Coat Cooke & Rainer Wiens. High Wire.
NOW Orchestra Records CLNOW0007.
Coat Cooke & Joe Poole. Conversations.
NOW Orchestra Records CLNOW0006.