Perspectives of New Music articles from June 2001

Perspectives of New Music archives from June 2001

The flowering of gending Agbekor: a musical collaboration with I Dewa Putu Berata.
June 22, 2001... KAWITAN (INTRODUCTION) AWAKENING" IS A WORD well-chosen to describe the point at which a set of Balinese instruments becomes a gamelan in the fullest sense, the point at which those instruments come to life as a consequence of interaction...

Kembangan in the music of Lou Harrison.
June 22, 2001... LOU HARRISON'S MUSIC is best known for its intercultural connections. Since his first exposure to non-Western music through his study with Henry Cowell in 1935, HARRISON has been exploring a wealth of compositional and aesthetic perspectives...

Afterword.(comments on intercultural communication through music)
June 22, 2001... ON THE EVENING of Monday, September 10, 2001, I was trying to figure out a way to revise the opening of this text. In all too many ways the opening was a cop-out, fancy but skirting the depths, a problem arising from the confusion and deadlock...

The "Giant Steps" fragment.(musical composition)
June 22, 2001... THE FOLLOWING IS a transcript of a certain papyrus fragment found in an earthenware jar beneath my back deck. As many of the terms and references used in the text are somewhat obscure, a glossary of terms and bibliography of works mentioned can...

The soft-focus sound: reverb as a gendered attribute in mid-century mood music.
June 22, 2001... Hebenstreit liked to roll great billows of arpeggiated chords over the wide range of his instrument and to allow the full resonance of the undampened strings to die slowly on the listeners' ears. It was a new sensation at the time, and it...

Listening to similarity relations.
June 22, 2001... WHAT FOLLOWS is an extended argument for these two claims: 1. The ways in which we are accustomed to talking about similarity relations are not as productive as they seem to be, and there are better ways to do it. 2. Comparison of...

Adding pitches; some new thoughts, ten years after Perspectives of New Music's "Forum: Microtonality Today".
June 22, 2001... As we wonder what it is that grips us and fills us with foreboding and delight in Chopin's music, we are apt to find a solution that might appear to many as pure fantasy, namely that Chopin's intention was to release upon us a cloud of...

What is Plura-Monism?
June 22, 2001... WHAT IS PLURA-MONISM, or, who is Pluramon? An answer by Stockhausen follows: I've called this [the end of the Fourth Region of Hymnen] the hymn of PLURAMON, who is a symbiotic being combining aspects of both a pluralist and a monist. And I...

Residue-class sets in the music of Iannis Xenakis: an analytical algorithm and a general intervallic expression.
June 22, 2001... IN A 1990 ARTICLE entitled "Sieves," IANNIS XENAKIS elaborated upon the description of sieve theory he gave twenty years before in "Towards a Metamusic," which was also included in his monograph, Formalized Music. (1) XENAKIS'S "sieves" are...

Towards a space-time art: Iannis Xenakis's Polytopes.
June 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION POLYTOPES" IS THE COLLECTIVE NAME of a series of multimedia installations, including sound, light and architecture, conceived by IANNIS XENAKIS during the 1960s and 1970s. The word "polytope" is Greek; in this context it has...