Friday, April 27 2007
Classical Radio Communities: Thoughts on Mediation
Classical music radio gives rise to a prophylactic form of community: we are somehow participating with other listeners without having to engage directly with those others. The music becomes a pretense for communal participation.
Friday, March 23 2007
Why Don’t the Planets Speak?: An Inquiry Into Music and Language
Speech involves saying something individual in a rigid system of conformity. Music seems to attempt something similar -- or, more appropriately, people attempt something similar through music.
Tuesday, January 23 2007
The Sounds of Now, Part Three: Anthony Braxton and the Ethics of Improvisation
Jenkins's latest installment in a series of contemporary composer profiles discusses Anthony Braxton, who seems to have looked to music as a means not to erase or ignore cultural dissonance but rather to confront it directly.
