Episode 4 Playlist: The Tale of the Tape

by | 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...

I Remember: The Music of the Holocaust

by | 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...

From the Bins: Three West Coast Composers

by | 30 Apr 2016 | Reviews

I had just paid for an armful of LPs at Iris Records, my local vinyl emporium in Jersey City’s Village. I was turning to leave when Steve, sitting behind the stacks of records crowding around the cash, stopped me. He pulled a record from the pile “This just came...
Listening in the Dark: The Avant-Garde at the Movies

Listening in the Dark: The Avant-Garde at the Movies

by | 25 Apr 2016 | Podcasts

The soundtrack album for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) stimulated unprecedented interest in adventurous avant-garde music, and sold 500,000 copies within a year. Click play for the third episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. “Listening in the Dark: The Avant-Garde at the...