It's really boring. The most obvious kind of 70s Maoist critique. I was curious about Cardew given that his Treatise seems to have been been gaining interest among musicians this century.I think I'll pass.
Well, I did say that to me, it's a failed experiment. I was born in Salzburg, Austria, a city with some notable music chops & opera, too. While I have never been there for about more than 4 months at a time, I have been to my born home 9 times to see family & friends and always get the classical exposure, go to where Silent Night was written, etc.
I don't like to follow the idea completely, because I like places where 'Neue Musik' is promoted and also created. For example the IRCAM in France, the ZKM in Germany and the remote Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media in Japan, which I also visited once and had a friendly exchange with the artists there. I have already enjoyed countless excellent 'Tonkunst' performances in the ZKM Cube which I won't miss.
These are still after-effects of the Corona Pandemic, which unfortunately caused a lot of damage to the concert business. Probably even sustainable.
I also admire his work.
This is a great library. I can compliment you. I myself am not very familiar with this area theoretically, I took a more practical approach. We are a musical household. My wife plays the piano, has loved classical music since she was a child, she understands it better than I do.
HiMicrotonal keyboards have existed for years...centuries, even.
Messiaen employed the ondes martinot, which of course can play all the notes 'in between' the 12 tones of the chromatic scale.
Harry Partch built entirely new instruments so people could play the microtonal music he heard in his head
I'm in favor of public funding for the arts. I have criticisms of some examples of how it is allocated. When I wrote "I despise all this insitutional investment in producing national cultural heros" it's not the investment I despise, it's the hierarchy and centralization. The anarchist in me prefers a distributed, bottom-up distribution.
That looks exciting.
Me too. Only one of those books (Formaized Music) is mostly theory. Many are about improvisation or about/by improvising musicians, which has always been my own practical approach.
It can but it's not easy and most standard software/equipment either can't do it or must be adapted. Try on Gearspace. The technical knowledge there is astonishing and many are generous with it. MIDI may not be the right technology, idk, check with the experts.
The list of his pupils has a remarkable collection of famous names. But afaik he taught a standard harmony course, not his own ideas. I think the modernist influence may have been more in the other direction, his students influencing him with their novel ideas.Messiaen was Boulez's teacher.
Boulez started conducting among other things to program Messiaen works and other contemporary ones, as a way of trying to promote this type of music, like his own.
Now this is a great post.
