Classical-Drone

My ongoing interest in piano miniatures has led me from Mompou and Scriabin to the Ukrainian composer/pianist Valentin Silvestrov. Born in...

Recently I stumbled across a fascinating article in the Atlantic on the Grateful Dead's archive, which they donated to the University o...

I have two reviews in the February 2010 issue of Furthernoise.org: Extended Night , an EP by Dining Needle, an ambienteer from the Seattle a...

The more time I spend looking at alternate musical notation, the more I come to Graham Collier 's statement about jazz: all that matters...

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...