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A Circle With Four Corners: Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson’s Rough Thoughts on Composition
I have decided to put down some thoughts about composition on “paper.” I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time but never found a suitable occasion. Maybe it’s a rough draft of or for something. I divided my thoughts into four parts that roughly correlate with what many people supposedly associate with the…
Alvin Curran, alvin lucier, Beethoven, Bellini, Brahms, Charles Ross, Charles Taylor, Christian Wolff, contemporary classical music, Dainin Katagiri Roshi, Fats Domino, Frank Denyer, Frescobaldi, Handel, Haydn, Helmut Lachenmann, Horațiu Rǎdulescu, Iceland, james tenney, just intonation, liszt, Little Richard, Luciano Berio, microtonality, morton feldman, Mozart, Papua New Guinea, Pauline Oliveros, Peter Ablinger, Pitch, S.L.A.T.U.R., Time, Trees, Wagner -
Ben Bennett’s “Music for Idiophones, Vol. 1”
“Music for Idiophones, Vol. 1” is solitary music in that it seems to have materialized from the same kind of solitude that desert plants and idiorrhythmic monks know. These 10 tunes are amoral, uncivilized dialogues with the metaphysical absolute that suggest non-human persons simply being and breathing, made from objects that signify civilization at its…