Perspectives of New Music articles from January 2001

Perspectives of New Music archives from January 2001

Negotiating the music-theory/African-music nexus: a political critique of Ethnomusicological anti-formalism and a strategic analysis of the harmonic patterning of the Shona Mbira song Nyamaropa.
January 1, 2001... The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. --Theodor W. Adorno Why couldn't the world that concerns us--be a fiction?... Shouldn't philosophers be permitted to rise above faith in...

Form and the concept album: aspects of modernism in Frank Zappa's early releases.
January 1, 2001... Record industry executives need to find out what it is they're selling because, see, they don't know how important pop music is today. All they know is that that's what's making money this month. They really don't know what a revolution it is...

Music as anti-theatre: a text about some writings by John Rahn.
January 1, 2001... 1. AN ARTICLE ABOUT DU TAKING A DEEP, hard look at the first aggregate of Milton Babbitt's Du, (1) John Rahn is finely positioned to activate his special gift for uncovering, exploring, spinning a multidirectional array of subject-threads,...

Formalized accelerando: an extension of rhythmic techniques in Nancarrow's acceleration canons.
January 1, 2001... [A]cceleration canon does not have the kind of clean structural implications Nancarrow found in the straight tempo canon... Perceptually fascinating, it did not lead to the kind of compositional richness he found elsewhere. Kyle Gann, The...

Iannis Xenakis: Regard, disregard; liberation.
January 1, 2001... INDULGE MY REMINISCENCE: one Fall day in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was sipping Drambuie and doing calculus homework with the radio on. The oleaginous announcer's voice turned into--Metastasis! My head snapped up from the...

The radiance of Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001).
January 1, 2001... RUPTURE AND FUSION IANNIS, To elaborate upon the relationship that our works share, in these pages I will narrate the events that began with our meeting in 1968. Of the preceding period I retain only the lessons of Julian Orbon, whose...

Xenakis.(Iannis Xenakis)
January 1, 2001... IN HIS BOOK The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination (1978) Jacob Brownowski has written: I believe that we need to review the whole of our natural philosophy in the light of scientific knowledge that has arisen in the last fifty years. It...

The unity of Xenakis's instrumental and electroacoustic music: The case for "Brownian movements".
January 1, 2001... TECHNOLOGY AND THE AUTONOMY OF COMPOSITIONAL PRACTICE XENAKIS'S INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC (including also vocal music) has already been studied in many articles, reviews and even books. (1) However, there are still only a few analyses of his...

I see smoke, but where's the fire?
January 1, 2001... IN HIS ARTICLE, "'Yes I Wrote It, but I Didn't Mean It': Hearing the Unintended in Niimi Tokuhide's Ohju (1988)" (Perspectives of New Music 37, No. 2 (Summer, 1999)), Steven Nuss accuses me of setting various destructive "fires," practicing...

Counterpoint: A response to Bernard.(Jonathan Bernard)
January 1, 2001... IN THE COURSE of developing elegant and provocative ways for hearing and thinking about minimal music, Jonathan Bernard proposes certain criteria for music-analytical relevance and cultural authority that, while he did not intend to talk about...