...lesser degree of talent – he is a technician rather than an artist, a medium rather than a contributor. (Halprin 1969, 12) It hardly seems necessary to point out the holes in this assessment, but let me a list a...

...Andrew W. 1995. “Cecil Taylor, Identity Energy, and the Avant-Garde African American Body.” Perspectives of New Music 33 (1/2): 274–93. Beins, Burkhard. 2011. “Scheme and Event.” In Echtzeitmusik Berlin: Selbstbestimmung Einer Szene | Self-Defining a Scene, edited by Burkhard Beins,...

...pages of lines and shapes, clustered around a strong, almost continuous central line, which can be imagined as the lifeline of the reader, his center, around which all manner of activity takes place […] (Cardew 1971, 113) Any number of...

...this from my own experience. Objects The first and most basic task of preparing Variations is assembling the long and sundry list of objects required to realize Patterson’s instructions. On paper, the relationship of this task to the “artistic” work...

...and performed in a radio piece recorded on trains in the Czech Republic with sound artist Christina Kubisch. 4 Since October 2016 I have been pursuing an immersive sound project for the remodeled San Francisco airport. None of these projects...

...by showing that physicality belongs to both practices, linking over-time and in-time processes in unexpected and fundamental ways. Such links stand to illuminate a dynamism central not only to Goldstein’s music, but to notation for improvisers as a whole....

...of that community before temporarily leaving music and moving to central America for most of the 1980s (Ostertag 2009)). The bass and drums team had also worked together for several years with Braxton’s “classic quartet”, which included pianist Marilyn Crispell...