الوسم: Wandelweiser
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Wandelwatching: Antoine Beuger and Jürg Frey performances in New York City
Seth Parker Woods. Photograph: Michael Yu Four years ago, I started a weekly series on this blog titled Wandelwatching, devoted to news and essays about composers of the Wandelweiser Group, a loosely knit global collective inspired by post-Cagean ideas concerning sound, space, silence, place, contemplativeness, and collaboration, among other things. If you're just catching up…
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Album review: Jürg Frey, ephemeral constructions
Originally published by National Sawdust Log on May 26, 2017 Jürg Frey ephemeral constructions Erik Carlson, violin; Jürg Frey, clarinet; Greg Stuart, percussion; University of South Carolina Experimental Music Workshop Edition Wandelweiser; CD (U.S. distribution: ErstDist) The less I say this time, the better – partly because I have so very, very little information available…
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Wandelwatching: Music for Contemplation, April 5, 2014
I start where I am and do what I can, practicing in my inner hearing and on the trombone what I can do, refining it and hearing it as clearly as I can in the time that I have available to me. I show up on Saturday where I am, giving the best that I…
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Wandelwatching: Reinier van Houdt, March 25, 2014
I find the implication that there are “ears” everywhere, at every point in a world, a fascinating concept, even if it is rather hard to imagine. It implies that position might be more important than time in hearing; and that the sounding configuration of a world can be understood (differently) from an infinite number of…
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Wandelwatching: Michael Pisaro/Miguel Prado, White Metal
We had already agreed in principle that the entire structure of the piece would be derived from Mozart’s 40th Symphony, and that obviously, “White Metal” should carry a variation of the concept “Black Metal” and the term “white noise”.—Miguel Prado Having declared last week in my initial Wandelwatching post that this series of essays is…
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New audio: R. Andrew Lee plays Eva-Maria Houben
<a href="http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/eva-maria-houben-piano-music" _mce_href="http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/eva-maria-houben-piano-music">Eva-Maria Houben: Piano Music by R. Andrew Lee</a> It's not all bad news today; it only seems that way. The world's a mess, but all is right with pianist R. Andrew Lee, who continues to blaze deep trails into the music of major minimalists past and present. New today on the Irritable…