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From the footnotes of the chapter Sounding Icons in his book on Pärt: “Pärt’s own example has helped liberate many composers from a sense of duty towards gestural dissonance, and there has been a proliferation of scores (especially in the choral world) featuring slow tempos and diatonic absolutism to show this! Even though it must […] Yesterday I spoke about how Schoenberg’s pieces and philosophical writings have started us on a journey to have our ears judge works by their thematic content rather than whether all the dissonances are handled like Bach would have wanted them too. Today, I wanted to post some music (better than JT) where the heavy use […] JT's music was influenced by a cultural progression started in large part by Arnold Schoenberg Two years ago when Justin Timberlake released his latest album FutureSex/LoveSounds, I absolutely hated it, mostly because of how much I don’t like teen pop albums but also because the big single off of it, SexyBack, sounded like the […] A couple of posts ago I railed against John Cage for the condescension of his audience. In it I described that Cage’s composition failed because it wasn’t able to express his philosophical point without a didactic explanation. It was not the audience’s failure to comprehend. It succeeded in other ways, by drawing attention to our […] Yesterday I had a long loooooong discussion with Noam Faingold about whether minimalism is included in the container that is Post-Modernism. I was arguing that it was, based on my belief that post-modernism was analogous to post-world war two (he promptly took me to task for that), and that because there are unified cultural themes […] Terry Riley may look rediculous, but he is one of the leaders of a principal post-modern avant garde movement. I’ve been thinking a ton about where classical art music is going these days, and I consistently get drawn to looking back at prior avant-garde movements that developed into important musical movements. Consider the […] One of the important facets of post-modernism over the last 50 years is our art’s focus on bringing the audience’s attention to what they are doing, the setting they are in, what they ate for lunch or what they wear. This is an important goal to achieve, as it de-limits what can be done. The […] A while ago I wrote about consumption and moving beyond post-modernism. In it I discussed how our new e-age is essentially an extension of post-modernism and that the projection of ourselves on social-networking utilities is a hypereality representative of this extension. As a reminder: Hyperreality is closely related to the concept of the […] In today’s New York Times, an Op-Ed by Christopher Francese discussed how it was stupid to put latin on diplomas since no-one can understand it anyways: Latin is a beautiful language and a relief from the incessant novelty and informality of the modern age. But when it’s used on diplomas, the effect is to obfuscate, […] Electronic music was first used by avant-garde composers in the early part of the 20th century, most notably Varese. These guys would record and transplant the sounds they choose to create their “organized sound” such as in Poême Électronique: As time went on and the abilities to create different sounds and explore timbre grew, […] |
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