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Mind reading?

Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Mind reading?

»A Space That Already Exists«

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Ligeti hat in seinen Partituren selten räumliche Anordnungen festgelegt ; wenn sie auftauchen, sind sie in der Regel bedingt durch spezifische dynamische und klangliche Anforderungen. Dennoch war die »Funktion des Raumes in der heutigen Musik« – um den Titel eines seiner Essays zu übernehmen – von zentraler Bedeutung für seine kompositorische Ästhetik. Wissenschaftler, die nach einer prägnanten Formel für dieses wichtige Konzept suchen, werden wohl verzweifeln, denn Ligeti versammelt alle möglichen Aspekte des musikalischen Raums unter einem großen metaphorischen Dach, da »weder in der alltäglichen Erfahrung noch im abstrakten Denken Zeit und Raum [...] trennbar« seien.Ligetis Schriften zur Form weisen einen interpretatorischen Weg durch dieses Dickicht. Der Hörer erlebt die Musik als eine Art umgekehrte, illusionäre Perspektive, in der Formen und Ereignisse – obwohl sie den »Raum« schaffen, den wir hören – in einem bereits existierenden Raum platziert erscheinen. Dieses rekursive...

Only the Truth! Camelia la Tejana's Many Truths

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Only the Truth! Camelia la Tejana's Many Truths

An Explosive Confrontation Messiaen and the Post-War Avant-Garde

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An Explosive Confrontation Messiaen and the Post-War Avant-Garde

Techniques for Polytemporal Composition

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Techniques for Polytemporal Composition

The World Without Music

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In a world without music, what kind of music will we make and what will we teach our children? Imagine there's no music, then imagine what you want music to be.

Intro to Quantum Harmony: Chords in Superposition

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Intro to Quantum Harmony: Chords in Superposition

Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Videogame Monstrosity

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Videogame Monstrosity

El Cajón del Mariachi: Schemata of a Vernacular Genre

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

AbstractMariachi music has long been recognized as a—perhaps the—central genre of vernacular music in Mexico, with scattered academic studies investigating its ties to Mexican culture, myth, and national identity. But the music itself, still propagated largely through oral instruction, has received little attention. Good Mariachi practice is based on a holistic model of performance that includes a prescribed repertoire of bass lines, harmonic changes, meters, forms, and instrumental voicings that operate in synchrony. Despite having coalesced around distinct regional styles both within and outside of Mexico, the musical tradition of Mariachi rests on select formal principles drawn from the Mexican Ranchera, Mexican Son and the historic instrumentation of trumpet, violin, vihuela/ guitar, and guitarrrón, transmitted primarily through aural instruction. This makes Mariachi an ideal case study for unique schema prototypes inspired by Robert Gjerdingen’s Music in the Galant Style...

Review of Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing, 3rd ed by Herbert Bruderer

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The book presents the major milestones of analog and digital computing. It was first published in German in 2015, followed by a significantly expanded two volume edition in 2018, and the third edition boasts added material and is now also available in English. The author exhaustively covers mechanical calculators, historical automata, and scientific instruments. In its detailed account of analog computing, this volume is surely unrivaled-the book discusses many groundbreaking analog devices, from the Antikythera (the first known astronomical calculator) to the Curta (the smallest mechanical parallel calculator), before venturing into the electronic era. The author not only compiles a historical guide to computing, he also offers detailed lists and tables that classify machines systematically: according to their function, their national origins, or according to where extant machines are collected or exhibited. The more recent past of digital computing is similarly more complex...

Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, Tan Dun. By Yayoi Uno Everett

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, Tan Dun. By Yayoi Uno Everett

Gyorgy Ligeti's Cultural Identities Introduction

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Gyorgy Ligeti's Cultural Identities Introduction

From Pulsation to Sensation: Virtuosity and Modernism in Ligeti’s First and Ninth Piano Études

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

From Pulsation to Sensation: Virtuosity and Modernism in Ligeti’s First and Ninth Piano Études

From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious

Genre as emigre The return of the repressed in Ligeti's Second Quartet

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Genre as emigre The return of the repressed in Ligeti's Second Quartet

Utopias and Their Discontents: Ligeti's Reception History as Modernist Meta-Narrative

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract: Conservative critic John Borstlap cited Ligeti as a partisan in his fight against the modernist myth of progress in the arts, based on the famous citation “I am in a prison. One wall is the avant-garde, the other is the past. I want to escape.” Ligeti's ambivalence reflected his distaste for art linked to utopian socialist ideals, and for all that was reactionary. Yet he admitted that his own youthful utopian strivings evolved into a desire for complex music that often defied audibility. This essay traces Ligeti's reception history from the late 1950s onward as a reaction to the thwarted utopian strains in his music. For some, Ligeti's music of the 1960s seemed to define “the contemporary problem itself.” But the composer's increased visibility in the 1990s led to demands that he deal with his Jewish heritage and wartime trauma, and cease writing music with a broad appeal. I argue that Ligeti's works reinscribe the past, the personal, and the extramusical as a conscious...

Introduction

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bringing together eminent scholars from several disciplines, this volume examines Hanslick's contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of music and looks anew at his literary interests.

German Liberalism, Nationalism, and Humanism in Hanslick’s Writings on Brahms

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bringing together eminent scholars from several disciplines, this volume examines Hanslick's contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of music and looks anew at his literary interests.

Brahms as a Vanishing Point in the Music of Wolfgang Rihm: Reflections on Klavierstück Nr. 6

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

But for all its variety, this volume is built around two axes: on the one hand, attention is focussed on the history of music and literature in Ireland and the British Isles, and on the other, topics of the German and Austrian musical past.

Chronology

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bringing together eminent scholars from several disciplines, this volume examines Hanslick'ss contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of music and looks anew at his literary interests.

Wie der Sozialstaat digital wurde: Die Computerisierung der Rentenversicherung im geteilten Deutschland [How the welfare state went digital: The computerization of pension insurance in divided Germany] by Thomas Kasper (review).

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Wie der Sozialstaat digital wurde: Die Computerisierung der Rentenversicherung im geteilten Deutschland [How the welfare state went digital: The computerization of pension insurance in divided Germany] by Thomas Kasper (review).

Gravitational wave and CMB probes of axion kination

Thu, 8 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Rotations of an axion field in field space provide a natural origin for an era of kination domination, where the energy density is dominated by the kinetic term of the axion field, preceded by an early era of matter domination. Remarkably, no entropy is produced at the end of matter domination and hence these eras of matter and kination domination may occur even after Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. We derive constraints on these eras from both the cosmic microwave background and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. We investigate how this cosmological scenario affects the spectrum of possible primordial gravitational waves and find that the spectrum features a triangular peak. We discuss how future observations of gravitational waves can probe the viable parameter space, including regions that produce axion dark matter by the kinetic misalignment mechanism or the baryon asymmetry by axiogenesis. For QCD axion dark matter produced by the kinetic misalignment mechanism, a modification to the inflationary...

Improvising in a different clave: Steve Coleman and AfroCuba de Matanzas

Fri, 2 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Improvising in a different clave: Steve Coleman and AfroCuba de Matanzas

Asian Americans and Creative Music Legacies

Fri, 2 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This essay is an introduction to what has been called the Asian American Creative Music Movement, focusing especially on musicians based in the San Francisco Bay area. It examines the history of those musicians' networks and situates their work as both musicians and activists in relation to African American creative music legacies.

Automata in extremis : Mauro Lanza's sublime sound machines

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Mauro Lanza and composer-technologist Andrea Valle’s cycle Systema Naturae (2013- 17) combines acoustic instruments with computer-controlled mechanical sound objects. The first work of the cycle, Regnum animale, surrounds a string trio with a circle of computer-driven, electro-mechanical devices, whimsical creations that offer a second life to discarded consumer electronics such as hair dryers and electric knives. Every performance of Regnum animale will be different, as the jerry-rigged mechanical objects necessarily break down or malfunction, as part of an instrumentarium in a state of constant becoming. Regnum animale thus represents a paradoxical combination of ideals. The composers demand extreme rigor from themselves and their performers. Yet both composer and performer blend their efforts with the the contingent sounds and rhythmic qualities of found and discarded consumer objects. Lanza recomposed five of the Regnum animale for orchestra as the basis for Anatra digeritrice...

'Are you dead, like us?’ The Liminal Status of the Undead in the Music of Ligeti

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Ligeti's oeuvre contains two great representations of death: the Requiem and Le Grand Macabre. But these are no ordinary essays on mortality. Their musical substance and themes are often allied to the grotesque as a trope, in which the ugly and deformed appear as characters and their actions in the opera, or musical techniques pushed beyond acceptable limits in the Requiem and other works. In taking the title of our conference at face value, I wish to show how the grotesque in such readings is but a mask for a peculiar relationship with death found throughout Ligeti's work: a sign of the undead, that life substance which persists beyond life, in defiance of social and symbolic norms. In this paper I will identify how, in the opera and in instrumental works, Ligeti adopts narrative and musical positions that could be called grotesque, with reference to Julie Brown and Esti Sheinberg's application of the grotesque to music by Bartók and Shostakovich. But I will further show how...

Adoption of open educational resources in California colleges and universities

Tue, 8 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The California Open Educational Resources Council (CAOERC) was formed in 2014 to find solutions to reduce the cost of college textbooks without impacting quality. Comprised of faculty from California's three public higher education systems, the CAOERC conducted a field study of 16 faculty using OER materials to discover practical knowledge about the challenges of adopting OER textbooks. The quality of the OER textbooks received positive reviews. The faculty also reported being more engaged with their teaching. The faculty felt that availability of OER support materials was a challenge to implementing OER. The following article presents the results of the CAOERC's study.

Codes, constraints, and the loss of control in Ligeti’s keyboard works

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Codes, constraints, and the loss of control in Ligeti’s keyboard works

Did Someone Say Post-Spectral?’ The Orchestral Imaginary in Millenial Works by Tulve, Dalbavie, and Haas

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Did Someone Say Post-Spectral?’ The Orchestral Imaginary in Millenial Works by Tulve, Dalbavie, and Haas

Somewhere In The Upstream, in memory of Yusef Lateef (1920-2013)