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2 November 2026
Depticted: Hryhorii Skovoroda
Рішуче до сродної праці!
Remarks for the II International Scientific and Practical Conference “The Folk-Instrumental Art of Slobozhanshchyna in the Musical Culture of Ukraine: History, Traditions, the …
29 October 2026
The video from your performance last month is now up on YouTube –
Chester Biscardi’s performance guide–
Luca Marenzio - Solo e pensoso i piú deserti campi
1. Les Thimmig’s “Mother Chord” from Arrhythmia contains …
17 October 2026
A Small Music Festival
Above: composer David Amram, with flutist Mindy Kaufmann, left; pianist Molly Morkoski, right, at The Village Trip 26, held at St. John’s in the Village, where the piano and the audience are both on the same level.
To step away …
18 September 2026
Cults of the small:
Jean Paul Richter’s small is humorous. More specifically it is picaresque. In his Vorschule für Ästhetik he assembles a vocabulary that examines how the picaresque works.
Wit and Acumen:
Witz discovers the disguised priest …
14 September 2026
I defend 12EDO these days becasue it gets a bad rap. It is a quasicrystal, and creates the frictionless behavior within that is structurally the same as the frictionless – superconducting! property of some quasicrystals.
Quasicrystals do appear in …
31 August 2026
The album *Bed of Creeks and Coils* is now released on New Focus Records.
Kyle Miller one of the rare composers who takes on the formidable task of negotiating the powerful redolences of the famililar. I take that as a noble challenge. He shares this …
25 August 2026
depicted: Ted Hughes. Harold Meltzer set him. Check out his Shakespeare book.
Fallout from the Death of Tragedy
–Armida, and what the tragic economy required–
TLDR: First corollary to the death of tragedy is that essentializing is not …
25 August 2026
More Fallout from the Death of Tragedy
TLDR: The second corollary to the death of tragedy is that strong men appear ridiculous and attract not the brightest lights, post-tragedy. Stifter was motivated negatively by Napoleon. Beethoven did the right …
