A while back I was approached by Evan Tobias, an extremely progressive NYC-based music educator (and actually the very first person I met at college), about doing a collaborative project with students in one of his general music classes at Willow Grove Middle School. The idea was that students would compose short motifs, which I […]
Don’t miss George Hunka’s three-part interview with new music pianist Marilyn Nonken. Part one deals with issues of gender, the visual aspect of music performance, and authority; part two focuses on self-consciousness, aesthetic v. everyday perception, and the risks involved with playing a certain type of repertoire; and in the final part she discusses her […]
American artists interested in copyright reform should look closely at the Canadian Music Creators Coalition, a growing group of Canadian artists who want their interests protected by copyright reform, not the interests of record labels. C.M.C.C. wants copyright reform to be guided by these three principles:
Suing Our Fans is Destructive and Hypocritical
Digital Locks are […]
Read ACD’s response to yesterday’s exchange. (Scroll down to the link in the Final Addenda.)
Update: Marla Patterson, the authoress of “the comment,” answers her critics in the TAFTO 2006 After Action Report.
Update #2: Sparks continue to fly in the TAFTO debate (and we thought the fire had been snuffed out). Marc Geelhoed of Deceptively Simple […]
After 30 years of study, Martin Jarvis, a professor at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia, has concluded that some of J. S. Bach’s most famous works, including his Six Cello Suites, were not written by Bach, but by his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach. He points to the fact that the only complete manuscript […]
I’m sure the Boston Symphony didn’t mean to fan the flames with this announcement, but the orchestra will now be offering a free podcast that features video lectures about its two-year Beethoven/Schoenberg series. As reported in PlaybillArts, the short videos (one to five minutes for the concentration-impaired) will discuss important works by each composer and […]
I’ve given my MySpace profile a little overhaul. New photos, videos, and music. Check out its newness.
Correction: SLN apologizes profusely to the wonderful visual artist Margaret Koscielny for wrongly attributing the comments below made by a reader to her.
TAFTO month is wrapping up over at Adaptistration so it’s about time I took care of some unfinished business. A reader posed an intriguing question in the comments section, and since my contribution […]
Fans of outsider arts rejoice. Influential avant garde musician, instrument builder, journalist, activist, and kayak instructor, Bob Ostertag has made all his recordings to which he owns the rights available for download from his website (via Sequenza21 via Seth Gordon). In total, about 8 hours from 11 different CDs are now available, including collaborations with […]
“The late moon now emerged. Under the eaves of the building it was still dark, but the sky was beautifully illuminated. An attendant was sent to fetch zithers from the Bureau of Books and Instruments. When there were brought Tô no Chûjô chose the six-stringed zither, which he, like Genji, played with outstanding skill. Prince […]