Composer Portals
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The Deceptive Simplicity and Totalism of David Lang
In recent decades, American composer David Lang has been best known as a founding member of the Bang On A Can collective – something of an activist-spirited composer/performer/educator outfit based in New York.
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Jacob Cooper Finds Grace in Diaphanous Slow Motion
There's hardly a DJ alive who hasn't slowed a vocal down, or sped it up, to fit another beat, while keeping it in the same key. This landscape is the place where composer Jacob Cooper calls home.
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The Witty and Reverent Musical World of Timothy Andres
Born in 1985, Timothy Andres (occasionally billed, somewhat insouciantly, as “Timo”) works in the post-dogmatic era of contemporary American composition. This means, among other thing... Apr 11, 2012
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Meredith Monk: Songs That Defy Time and Country
Sitting at the crossroads of installation art, extended vocal technique and non-score-based rehearsal processes is one of America’s late-20th century masters: Meredith Monk. Apr 9, 2012
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Lowell Liebermann: Strains of Serious Melancholy
"Lowell Liebermann," wrote one critic, "has achieved a reputation of writing some of the most melancholy, even gloomy, music on the planet." Why was this, the writer wanted to know... Apr 4, 2012
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Morton Subotnick at Play in the World of Electronic Music
Morton Subotnick has almost as many pioneering credits to his name as he does compositional ones. A leader of the San Francisco Tape Center in the '60s – a place where Terry Riley, Pa... Mar 19, 2012
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Scott Johnson: Pioneering 'Speech-Melody' and Hybridism
Composer/guitarist Scott Johnson is an inventor of a technique of generating a piece of music based on recorded speech and approximating it with musical notes.
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Ingram Marshall: Hypnotic Clouds and Washes of Sound
Some of Ingram Marshall's earliest recordings are of solo, semi-improvised performances, playing an Indonesian flute and singing falsetto to an accompaniment of prerecorded electronic... Mar 11, 2012
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Tyondai Braxton: Carnavalesque and Rapturous Abandon
While it is true that Tyondai Braxton's father is the revered composer and improviser Anthony Braxton, their music might as well come from two different planets (neither of which is E... Feb 22, 2012
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Michael Gordon: A Rare Balance of Exquisite Distortion
The Bang on a Can collective—Michael Gordon, wife Julia Wolfe, and fellow Martin Bresnick student David Lang—took a shared fascination with modernist dissonance, minimalist process, a... Feb 22, 2012