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John Cage
The Practicality of the Impossible: John Cage and the Freeman EtudesVariations on a Theme[2 May 2008] by Chadwick JenkinsJohn 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.
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? 
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. 
Restoring Intellectual DayChadwick Jenkins17.Jan.08 It rankles my sensibilities that great music is considered "timeless" and therefore Handel's music still "means" today whatever it was it meant in his own time.
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By George Reisch and Norah Martin [16.Jul.08] Negritude 2.0: Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is Wrong
By Mark Reynolds [3.Jul.08] Variations on a Theme: The Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding Stasis
By Chadwick Jenkins [2.Jul.08] |
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