Classical-Drone

An ongoing theme of this blog is the nature of a musical work, especially in light of the radical modifications to that concept since World...

From the earliest examples of musique concrète , practitioners have started from instrumental rather than environmental sounds, taking sampl...

It's that time again, to look back and reflect on the music and events from the past twelve months. Staggeringly, I acquired almost twi...

Because it's not Arizona. We've come across the water to the 50th state for the holidays. Not only is it green, an unusual color...

Stockhausen's intuitive pieces, From the Seven Days , are more than historical oddities; they continue to interest creative musicians a...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a Sun Circle concert, featuring Greg Davis and Zach Wallace. One of the albums I picked up at the conc...

In a recent interview at Paris Transatlantic , composer/improviser Richard Barrett commented that Stockhausen's recordings of his text c...