Perspectives of New Music back issues from June 2001:
The flowering of gending Agbekor: a musical collaboration with I Dewa Putu Berata.
Jun 22, 2001; ... KAWITAN (INTRODUCTION) AWAKENING" IS A WORD well-chosen to describe the point at which a set of Balinese instruments becomes a gamelan in the fullest sense, the point at which those instruments come to life as a consequence of interaction between their enabling presence and the ...
Kembangan in the music of Lou Harrison.
Jun 22, 2001; ... LOU HARRISON'S MUSIC is best known for its intercultural connections. Since his first exposure to non-Western music through his study with Henry Cowell in 1935, HARRISON has been exploring a wealth of compositional and aesthetic perspectives from around the planet, although he is primarily ...
Afterword.(comments on intercultural communication through music)
Jun 22, 2001; ... ON THE EVENING of Monday, September 10, 2001, I was trying to figure out a way to revise the opening of this text. In all too many ways the opening was a cop-out, fancy but skirting the depths, a problem arising from the confusion and deadlock which overtake me when I begin thinking about ...
The "Giant Steps" fragment.(musical composition)
Jun 22, 2001; ... THE FOLLOWING IS a transcript of a certain papyrus fragment found in an earthenware jar beneath my back deck. As many of the terms and references used in the text are somewhat obscure, a glossary of terms and bibliography of works mentioned can be found at the end of the paper. The related ...
The soft-focus sound: reverb as a gendered attribute in mid-century mood music.
Jun 22, 2001; ... Hebenstreit liked to roll great billows of arpeggiated chords over the wide range of his instrument and to allow the full resonance of the undampened strings to die slowly on the listeners' ears. It was a new sensation at the time, and it seemed ravishing. Arthur Loesser on ...
Listening to similarity relations.
Jun 22, 2001; ... WHAT FOLLOWS is an extended argument for these two claims: 1. The ways in which we are accustomed to talking about similarity relations are not as productive as they seem to be, and there are better ways to do it. 2. Comparison of various similarity relations from ...
Adding pitches; some new thoughts, ten years after Perspectives of New Music's "Forum: Microtonality Today".
Jun 22, 2001; ... As we wonder what it is that grips us and fills us with foreboding and delight in Chopin's music, we are apt to find a solution that might appear to many as pure fantasy, namely that Chopin's intention was to release upon us a cloud of quarter-tones, which now appear as phantom ...
What is Plura-Monism?
Jun 22, 2001; ... WHAT IS PLURA-MONISM, or, who is Pluramon? An answer by Stockhausen follows: I've called this [the end of the Fourth Region of Hymnen] the hymn of PLURAMON, who is a symbiotic being combining aspects of both a pluralist and a monist. And I say he lives in the Harmondie ...a ...
Residue-class sets in the music of Iannis Xenakis: an analytical algorithm and a general intervallic expression.
Jun 22, 2001; ... IN A 1990 ARTICLE entitled "Sieves," IANNIS XENAKIS elaborated upon the description of sieve theory he gave twenty years before in "Towards a Metamusic," which was also included in his monograph, Formalized Music. (1) XENAKIS'S "sieves" are custom-designed collections constructed from ...
Towards a space-time art: Iannis Xenakis's Polytopes.
Jun 22, 2001; ... INTRODUCTION POLYTOPES" IS THE COLLECTIVE NAME of a series of multimedia installations, including sound, light and architecture, conceived by IANNIS XENAKIS during the 1960s and 1970s. The word "polytope" is Greek; in this context it has to be interpreted literally: poly means ...