Composers Forum is a daily web log that allows invited contemporary composers to share their thoughts and ideas on any topic that interests them--from the ethereal, like how new music gets created, music history, theory, performance, other composers, alive or dead, to the mundane, like getting works played and recorded and the joys of teaching. If you're a professional composer and would like to participate, send us an e-mail.
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Just wanted to call people's attention to the fact that the S21 Listening Room is now available as a podcast (just direct your podcasting application, or iTunes 4.9, to http://webjay.org/by/idealord/sequenza21wikilisteningroom.xml and download whatever you want).
There's been a lot of interesting discussion related to how to get new music in the hands of impressionable teenagers. Jeff Harrington and I are of the same mind: get this music on the Web in a digital format and make it freely available. Podcasting can be a part of the solution, and even though Jeff doesn't own one, he's quite correct in his statement that the iPod can be the venue. Live performances are great, and nothing beats a great live interpretation of new music. But if a lot of people might download the garbage on my music site, or listen to a podcast, isn't that a great way to get new music around? No worse than Keith Haring making his great art available to anyone interested in the NY subway system...
posted by David Toub
7:25 PM
