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Tag: compositional practice
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 …
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 …
22 August 2026
“It follows from the lawless, capricious spirit of the present age, which would egotistically annihilate the world and the universe in order to clear a space merely for free play in the void, and which tears off at the bandage of its wounds as a …
20 August 2026
image: Geog Joseph Vogler, who began speaking of *Mehrdeutigkeit*. Gottfried Weber developed the principles much further.
“It follows from the lawless, capricious spirit of the present age, which would egotistically annihilate the world and the …
30 June 2026
Holding and Letting Go
Chapter 1 of The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996) opens by inviting the reader to imagine a world where the Left had suffered a crippling political defeat. Eagleton’s argument is that postmodernism’s signature moves …
