by Matt Friedman | 23 Dec 2016 | Podcasts
We’re back with our tenth episode. Musicologist Jill Rogers (University College Cork) joins host Matthew Friedman for a holiday special exploring how modernist and avant-garde composers have marked Christmas in their music since the early 20th century. Whether...
by Matt Friedman | 11 Dec 2016 | News
After a much-longer than expected hiatus, No Sounds Are Forbidden will return on 18 December for a very special Avant-Garde Holiday Spectacular that will be, well… spectacular! With special guest Dr. Jill Rogers of University College Cork, Matthew Friedman will...
by Matt Friedman | 8 Aug 2016 | News
With summer coming to an end, and the new academic term in the offing, I will be taking a short break in the last few days of Summer. No Sounds Are Forbidden will return in September with new episodes, including a look at the postwar European avant-garde’s...
by Matt Friedman | 20 Jul 2016 | Podcasts
Click play for the ninth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores the adventurous, and often chaotic street-level avant-garde of Central Europe between the World Wars. In Berlin, Prague, and Vienna, radical composers, writers, and...
by Matt Friedman | 7 Jul 2016 | Podcasts
Click play for the eighth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores the American avant-garde’s turn to minimalism in the late 1960s and 1970s. Launched as a critique of modernist intentionality, and the complexity of 20th century music,...
