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We Love Advances

August 25, 2010 Christian Carey

Steve Reich’s latest Nonesuch CD recently arrived, sans artwork in a little cardboard case. The disc features Double Sextet and 2×5, his collaborations with Eighth Blackbird and Bang on a…

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The Bare Minimal

July 22, 2010 Christian Carey

My graduate history seminar on minimalism starts next week at Westminster Choir College. I’ll be teaching the course in a three-week intensive session – three hours a day/four days a…

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i am sitting in a video room

June 3, 2010 David Toub

This was inspired by Alvin Lucier’s classic and still awesome work I am sitting in a room.

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Where there’s a will (and an iPhone) there’s a way

March 8, 2010 Steve Layton

Back last December the New York Times highlighted the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra. The first link goes to the NYT video of the ensemble, but here’s a nicely quiet work…

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New Sounds Live

February 24, 2010 Christian Carey

I really enjoyed Q2’s broadcast tonight of New Sounds Live, a concert at Merkin Hall by the Bang on a Can All Stars that featured works by Nik Bartsch, Oscar…

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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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Order, Not Chance, Reigns in Philip Glass’ Kepler

November 29, 2009 Michael McDonagh

Philip Glass always does the unexpected. Or, as he said to me when we were talking on the phone about his subsequently Oscar-nominated score for Errol Morris’ 2003 The Fog…

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Tuning in to Gravity at Galapagos

October 27, 2009 Galen H. Brown

Last Friday I finally made it down to the new DUMBO location of Galapagos Art Space to see the release party/performance of Mikel Rouse’s haunting new album Gravity Radio. But…

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Airmailing some catalogs via Amsterdam

October 20, 2009 Steve Layton

Many of our regular s21 readers should be familiar with Amsterdam’s own Samuel Vriezen, both as a visitor here on these pages, as well as a composer selected to be…

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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…