Daniel Carter is amazing. I haven't heard him play in a while, but boy this is a brilliant page of an interview (the larger is well worth it, but this has some real pith ( Read more... )

I don't want to have to pick on LaToya Jackson, that's really probably been done enough, but I just listened to her version of Prince's Private Joy. Now, it's a problematic song, but I can forgive that when it's delivered as brilliantly as Prince delivers it. But Toya gets it all wrong to my ears ( Read more... )

Yo -
This great thing I took part in last month at the Cabinet Magazine HQ with Sterling Basement (aka John Roach & co.), entitled "Songs of the Gowanus":

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Ticket for travel to & from Java in June: booked ( Read more... )

This incident strikes me as being too bad:
NYTimes on Met Opera Historic Gift Blah
A gift of $30 million. Their annual budget is TEN TIMES THAT. Think of all the music you could really make for $300. Henry Flynt and Jack Smith had some compelling points:

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After months (if not years) of training, I finally made it through this quiz with 48/48 ceremonial counties of England named correctly. Take that, Lord Somebodyorother! I feel very smart. Also, I can recognize most of them by location & shape, not just name.

This is what I mean:

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Trillium E: giants from Anne Rhodes on Vimeo.

[recording Anthony Braxton's opera Trillium E in Ditmas Park this week]

So I've managed to get myself into a creative state of mind, and that's no small thing, a thing that involved altering my concept of "career" and much monetary calculation and the like. I'm pleased when I step back. But some times you don't step back, and the quotidian concern for me often boils down to "what if I am unable to consciously create ( Read more... )

things I have a hard time keeping straight that don't really matter:
ontology, hermeneutics, bathos, qua, etc.
I think know which one semiotics are. I'm not in a huge rush to figure these things out, but I feel like I make a fine grad student nonetheless.

I want to make a piece in a tunnel with little makeshift tents and a boy in a green dinosaur ( Read more... )

Non-timeline music makes no attempts to keep the attention of the listener. It exists as if apart from the attention of the listener. The listener is free to come and go. When the listener attends to the music, there is only the 'sound'. The sound is everything. When the listener is away, the music exists anyway. This is certainly a new idea ( Read more... )