by Matt Friedman | 24 May 2016 | Podcasts
Click play for the fifth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores how avant-garde composers rediscovered the spatial nature of sound in the 20th century, and explored the three-dimensional implications of their music. This episode features...
by Matt Friedman | 24 May 2016 | Playlists
Giovanni Gabrieli, Magnificat a 14, Taverner Choir, London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Andrew Parrott Giovanni: Symphoniae Sacrae II, L’Oiseau-Lyre – 475 9113 Georg Philipp Telemann, Tafelmusik – Tafelmusik Suite In E Major, Rondeau, Musica...
by Matt Friedman | 9 May 2016 | Podcasts
The San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1964. From left to right: Tony Martin, Bill Maginnis, Ramon Sender, Morton Subotnick, and Pauline Oliveros. Click play for the fourth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores the impact of magnetic tape...
by Matt Friedman | 8 May 2016 | Playlists
Pierre Schaeffer, Cinq Etudes de Bruits The French Avant-Garde in the 20th Century, LTM Recordings – LTMCD 2571 Halim El-Dabh, Wire Recorder Piece An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music Vol. 4, Sub Rosa – SR250 Otto Luening, Low Speed Pioneers Of...
by Matt Friedman | 3 May 2016 | Essays
At the end Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis, Kaiser Uberall accepts his fate: he will be the sacrifice which will restore the balance of life and death that his own arrogance and brutality so tragically upset. It is one of the most powerful moments in...
