28/09/2011

Treatise

the september's issue of the french magazine "Revue et Corrigée" includes a long report , as well interviewes, around "Treatise", the famous score of Cornelius Cardew...

25/09/2011

WTC 9/11

La dernière oeuvre de Steve Reich, interprétée par le Kronos Quartet, en écoute sur Minnesota Public Radio, via le blog de Jean Jacques Birgé



WTC 9/11
 
 
 
 
 
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23/09/2011

Disques Vogue



An exhibition around the french record's label Vogue, at Bibliothéque nationale de France, Paris.

21/09/2011

Folk creature



For me, innovation does not consist in composing European and academic music with inserted “folk” references.  It consists in appropriating academic or technical devices and subordinating them to my purposes as a “folk creature.”  An outstanding prototype of this approach was Bo Diddley’s use of the electric devices of pop music to project the Afro-American sound.
Henry Flynt - 1980

17/09/2011

The fence




 a work by Jon Rose who has been bowing and recording the music of Fences worldwide.

Harmonic fields

Marche symphonique pour instruments éoliens et public en mouvement 

de Pierre Sauvageot et Lieux publics & Cie



 
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10/09/2011

Record groove

a record groove magnified 1000 times


07/09/2011

Farmer in the city

 

 
 
a Scott Walker's jewel
from "Tilt", published in 1995