Monday, October 09, 2017

Signs o' the times

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Last week, this CD arrived in the mail: It can be seen as symbolic of today's status of the performer: the pianist's name print...
Friday, April 07, 2017

New professorship

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The University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz ( KUG ) is offering a fulltime professorship in Artistic Research, beginning with t...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

The Florence Principles

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At their latest conference, in a Northern Italian city not far from where the oldest university has seen the start of a process leading ...
Monday, March 13, 2017

When Brahms met Debussy

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I once had a teacher, Claude Coppens, who had meticulously looked for statistical information among the dynamics in the complete known wor...
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Thursday, March 09, 2017

Dead or alive

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Any performer active in new music has experienced it when working with living composers: they aren't necessarily the Holy Grail of ans...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

CfP: composition as critical practice

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For its 10th Research Seminar, "Sound Work", the Orpheus Institute is investigating "composition as critical technical pra...
Monday, February 29, 2016

A move to put our mark on the Frascati Manual²

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A bit over two years ago, I reported  ( here )  on a request by the Society for Artistic Research ( SAR ) to the Organisation for Econom...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Alain Franco's WTK project

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On Sunday February 28 (3-7.30pm), pianist Alain Franco will perform  his version of Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier at the Pact Zollv...