Among the Ruins: The Rebirth of Europe’s Avant-Garde
Henri Pousseur, David Tudor, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Pierre Boulez at Darmstadt in 1956 In the eleventh episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden, host Matthew Friedman explores how European composers built a new avant-garde, virtually out of nothing after the Second World War. Growing out of the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, this transnational community...
Among the Ruins: The Rebirth of Europe’s Avant-Garde
Henri Pousseur, David Tudor, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Pierre Boulez at...
Soir d’Hiver: The Spectacular Modernist Christmas SPECTACULAR!
We're back with our tenth episode. Musicologist Jill Rogers (University College Cork) joins host...
The Death of Europa: The Rise and Fall of the Inter-War Avant-Garde
Click play for the ninth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores...
In Phase/Out of Phase: The Radical Simplicity of Minimalism
Click play for the eighth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores the...
Music of Changes: Cage, Chance Operations, and Indeterminacy
The "New York School" in 1962: Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, John Cage, David Tudor, and Morton...
Synthetic Sound: The Second Electronic Music Revolution
Click play for the sixth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores sound...
Space Explorations: Avant-Garde Music in Three Dimensions
Click play for the fifth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores how...
The Tale of the Tape: The First Electronic Music Revolution
The San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1964. From left to right: Tony Martin, Bill Maginnis, Ramon...
Listening in the Dark: The Avant-Garde at the Movies
The soundtrack album for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) stimulated unprecedented interest in...
Order From Chaos: Modernism and Rationality in 12 Tones
Modernists in exile in America. From left to right: Violinist Rudolf Kolisch, conductor George...
Confronting Tonality
I came to avant-garde art music fairly early (and fairly easily), through the soundtrack album for...
I Remember: The Music of the Holocaust
At the end Viktor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis, Kaiser Uberall accepts his fate: he will be...
From the Bins: Three West Coast Composers
I had just paid for an armful of LPs at Iris Records, my local vinyl emporium in Jersey City's...
Rites of Spring: The Concert Season at the End of the World
Outrage flooded into the aisles of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées on the night of 29 May 1913, and...