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The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) takes Manhattan

June 14, 2016 Joshua Banks Mailman

Most New Yorkers are walking about, minding their own business, completely oblivious to the international sonic earthquake vibrating through their midst all week: The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival…

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MCTS 2012 Post-Conference Report

May 23, 2012 Tyran Grillo

Report by Tyran Grillo (between sound and space) Photos by Evan Cortens Music: Cognition, Technology, Society set a formidable intellectual task before participants of the selfsame conference at semester’s end…

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Music: Cognition, Technology, Society

May 8, 2012 Eric Nathan

“How can music ‘speak’ and how do we have knowledge of it? What is its potential to express, represent, and communicate? How has changing expertise concerning sonic and musical knowledge…

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We return to Now, already in progress

October 12, 2010 Polly Moller

I first heard about the Long Now Foundation a couple years ago from friend and former bandmate Daniel Magazin. I remember visiting their web site and thinking that San Francisco…

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Blängen the Schlingen with Charlemagne Palestine

February 9, 2010 Steve Layton

Pwyll ap Siôn is a composer and Senior Lecturer in music at Bangor University in Wales (UK). His strong interest in Minimalism (he’s written a book on Michael Nyman) led…

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Minimalism Conference: Final Report

September 11, 2009 Galen H. Brown

When I finally struck out for the Kansas City airport on Sunday afternoon, Kyle Gann was about 45 minutes into a very chilled-out performance of his heroic four-and-a-half-hour transcription of…

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Minimalism Conference, Day 4

September 6, 2009 Galen H. Brown

Tonight’s performance by Charlemagne Palestine was, in short, one of the most extraordinary musical experiences of my life. Palestine has developed a technique for playing the organ which involves the…

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Minimalism Conference, Day 3

September 5, 2009 Galen H. Brown

This summary has to be a short one, since I need to finish preparing for my paper presentation tomorrow morning, but today was another excellent conference day. During the day,…

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Minimalism Conference, Day 2

September 4, 2009 Galen H. Brown

A day that starts at 9AM and ends after 11 at night, in which 15 different people give presentations, and which culminates in a two hour concert, is not a…

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Minimalism Conference Day 1

September 3, 2009 Galen H. Brown

If good luck in travel is a harbinger of things to come, then the fact that my flight into Kansas City for the Second International Conference on Minimalist Music actually…