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It is always interesting the hear how a composer works, and how they envision the feelings that a piece of art from a different medium express. Here we have Philip Glass writing a work that shares the title of Allen Ginsberg’s Wichita Sutra Vortex: Take a listen to the work and hear the beautiful […] 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 […] Composers work very hard on their craft, especially when it comes to motivic development. The development of these motives often comes in altering melodic fragments and placing them in counterpoint or a recombination of the parts to create a new sonic object. Why does this work for our ears though? How does greater organization in […] Most violinists or violists who’ve decided to perform as a career have played exercises from these books. They are not quite etudes in the sense that Kreutzer or Rode are, but still much more music-like than Dounis exercises or scales. I find they are incredibly useful, especially the first book in teaching the hand proper […] We experience sound in a three deminsional space. This should come as no surprise to those who pay attention to the sounds that enter our ears. This is in stark contrast with the capabilities of our eyes. When we are born, our visual-perceptions are terribly limited. Much of our ability to see in 3D-ness is […] 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 […] I’m sitting here listening to organ compositions whose writing dates span from the baroque all the way to some selections in pop (like the beginning of U2’s Where The Streets Have No Name), to jazz and blues works with the principal player playing electric organ (Herbie Hancock anybody?). It got me thinking about how the […] Yesterday I played for the band Princeton in their effort with a dance troupe. In between my stints of playing for the band’s rock songs and the collaborative dance work, the dancer put on their own pieces. Some were incredibly boring, but one that I thought was unexpectedly effective was a dance where a short […] |
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