Perspectives of New Music articles from June 1993

Perspectives of New Music archives from June 1993

Learning from architecture: music in the aftermath to postmodernism. (Critical Theory of Music)
June 22, 1993... I In an age when interpretive deficits and the depletion of resources for understanding are occluded by and subordinated to imperatives for deficit reduction in the economic and administrative spheres, the process of making sense of the...

Listening subjects: semiotics, psychoanalysis, and the music of John Adams and Steve Reich. (Critical Theory of Music)
June 22, 1993... THIS PAPER OUTLINES a theory of listening subjectivity for music.(1) In general, I am interested in naming and exploring a middle ground between pieces of music as texts and psychic structures upon which their perception depends. Based on...

Differences. (Critical Theory of Music)
June 22, 1993... IN THIS AGE OF DIFFERENCE, a "postmodern" era which (on the surface) proclaims its difference from the Modern with all the naive historicizing fervor of any past avant-garde, this fin-de-siecle which hysterically celebrates the centrifugal as...

Cage/Atlas. (In Memoriam John Cage)
June 22, 1993... This is a mistake. Art is self-alteration. I keep boxes and put things in them, and give them away almost immediately or send them to places, because I am searching, you see, for this emptiness all the time. Living or dead, that's the big...

John Cage and history: 'Hymns and Variations.' (In Memoriam John Cage)
June 22, 1993... I When John Cage embraced compositional methods based on chance, his act was commonly interpreted as a rejection of history, a repudiation of all music--indeed, all culture--which had come before. This view was powerfully expressed by...

Apolemology, apamphlegmatic pamphlet. (In Memoriam John Cage)
June 22, 1993... ... , Musical Instruments are the depository of a memory which roots musical practice in a limited circle of possibilities, in a context already determined, instruments do not change as quickly as ideas since they do not float like sounds and...

Regretting John Cage and Kenneth Gaburo: a gathering of texts. (In Memoriam John Cage)
June 22, 1993... AN EPIGRAPH FOR JOHN CAGE What John Cage is about is not Zen; it is experimental existentialism. It profoundly uses onsite trashing conventional ritual occasions and forms and systems through which social substance is infrastructurally...

The Cage case: existential joker. (In Memoriam John Cage)
June 22, 1993... 1982, A Private Commemorative; [1992, A Public Commentary] He's been with us for decades, hard to ignore, ever startling, ever outrageous, ever in process of redefining, at times too one-linerish. Once heard, doesn't always bear second...

Four envois. (In Memoriam John Cage)
June 22, 1993... John Cage's loss has deeply affected me: I felt he was untouchable, like the noise of the wind, of airplanes, of the sea, of traffic and birds. I have always loved and admired him, bound to him by an ancient quantity of memories, big and small,...

Clavier music 1992.
June 22, 1993... I WISH YOU ALL good evening. Welcome. A lecture about clavier music is scheduled next. I suggest that you move as close as possible to the piano, so that you can hear better. We will wait a moment. [A number of listeners come from the back rows...

'Octophony': electronic music from 'Tuesday from Light.'
June 22, 1993... The electronic music from "Invasion--Explosion" with "Departure" (about seventy-four minutes' duration) is in eight channels and is to be projected by means of eight loudspeaker groups. Earlier eight-track compositions were the electronic...

A jostled silence. (Contemporary Japanese Musical Thought, part 3)
June 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION IN THE SPRING OF 1977, the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) held its annual festival in an atmosphere of rare cooperation when Sweden and Finland cosponsored a week-long series of events. Although its...

Mind in art. (A Jostled Silence: Contemporary Japanese Musical Thought, part 3)
June 22, 1993... 1. ARTWORK AND PHYSICAL FACT WE USUALLY DO NOT have problems with expressions such as "I saw a wonderful picture" or "I listened to some impressive music." However, further consideration leads us to wonder what signifies that which we...

The world of No as I perceive it, concerning some problems in music. (A Jostled Silence: Contemporary Japanese Musical Thought, part 3)
June 22, 1993... The world of No has a high degree of significance in relation to my music. At times, its world is closely connected with the creative energy in the deepest parts of my soul; it does not even seem excessive to say that all the issues arising in...

Theater as an environmental medium. (A Jostled Silence: Contemporary Japanese Musical Thought, part 3)
June 22, 1993... The theater was, if we examine its origins, a place for religious and societal ceremony and also a place for social human interaction. It was a vessel which held such content as ceremonies, prayers, dramas and the dance which accompanied both...

The degeneration of music - what does it mean? (A Jostled Silence: Contemporary Japanese Musical Thought, part 3)
June 22, 1993... Recently I Had an opportunity to read the lead article in Ongaku Geijutsu by Yoshinao Nakada entitled, "The Degeneration of Contemporary Music--Art and the Professional Living with Pules." In it, my work was pointed out as a concrete example of...

Temporality and I: from the composer's workshop. (A Jostled Silence: Contemporary Japanese Musical Thought, part 3)
June 22, 1993... UNIVERSALITY AND INDIVIDUALITY Although there are numerous sources in the genealogy of my musical concerns, I will begin by dividing them roughly into two categories. One is a universal domain founded on the commonality of sensory...

Women working: an alternative to Gans. (Eric Gans) (Feminist Theory Forum)
June 22, 1993... BACKGROUND FOR PAPER At the close of the 1991 session of the Society for Music Theory's Committee on the Status of Women, John Rahn asked if I would be interested in submitting a feminist analytical paper to Perspectives of New Music,...

Elaine Barkin: active participant. (Feminist Theory Forum)
June 22, 1993... In Feminine Endings Susan McClary Writes that Janika Vandervelde "began to recognize certain masculinist traits in many of the techniques she had been taught or had absorbed from her lifelong exposure to classical music" (33). Elaine Barkin,...

Masculine discourse in music theory. (Feminist Theory Forum)
June 22, 1993... MUSIC THEORY AS A TOPIC FOR FEMINIST STUDY What relation might music theory have to feminist thought?(1) This question might be heard as proposing an interdisciplinary linkage, a cooperation between two initially self-sufficient...

Geometrie der Tone: Elemente der mathematischen Musiktheorie.
June 22, 1993... Guerino Mazzola. Geometrie der Tone: Elemente der mathematischen Musiktheorie. Basel: Birkhauser, 1990. Over the last ten years, independently of Anglo-American music scholarship, the Swiss mathematician and composer Guerino Mazzola has...

Gruppen und Kategorien in der Musik: Entwurf einer mathematischen Musiktheorie.
June 22, 1993... Guerino Mazzola. Gruppen und Kategorien in der Musik: Entwurf einer mathematischen Musiktheorie. (Research and Exposition in Mathematics 10. Ed. Karl H. Hofmann and Rudolf Wille.) Berlin: Heldermann, 1985. Over the last ten years,...