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The Sounds of Now, Part Three: Anthony Braxton and the Ethics of ImprovisationVariations on a Theme[23 January 2007] by Chadwick JenkinsJenkins'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.
Variations on a Theme
The Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding StasisChadwick Jenkins02.Jul.08 What happens to the ear when it receives musical sound? Do we hear "our" music as music and the rest as noise? 
The Practicality of the Impossible: John Cage and the Freeman EtudesChadwick Jenkins02.May.08 John Cage replaces the comforting order of the cosmos with the recalcitrant, indecipherable organization of a part of the universe. Each sound, radically set off from the others, demands that we hear it in isolation. 
Every Good Boy Does FineChadwick Jenkins21.Feb.08 Required to take a music class in high school I signed up for chorus, but the teacher offered me $50 to drop the class – and other ruminations about learning to play the piano.
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