21st century composers of serious music have a unique set of tools available to them – a complement to writing music in the traditional genres such as orchestra, opera, chamber, and other performance groupings. It began with musique concrète, computer music, and...
The offer was an eye-catching full page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle coaxing consumers to purchase a modern hi-fi set by throwing in one hundred long-playing albums. Actually, not throwing in, but if these records were bought at the suggested retail rate, the...
Sentient Music – Spontaneous Music – True Music – Personal Music – Improvised Music – Free Music – Not Really Music – Creative Music – Undisciplined Music – No Beat, No Melody Sentient Music – music that...
In Western culture there are three categories of art forms – popular, folk and serious. The popular, most clearly reflected in music and literature, is always creating new material, and is dominated by commercialism. The newest is always the most in demand in...
My adult life, and a good deal before, has been governed by solitude and either the active or anticipatory attention required for making art – specifically music, and in rare moods drawing, painting or writing. I was annealed to the sequestered, secret life in...
