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Tag: Game theory

  • Either/Or, an Ensemble That Plays By Its Own Rules

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    From NYTimes.com: Either/Or, the new-music ensemble formed in 2004 by the composer and pianist Richard Carrick and the percussionist David Shively, is devoted to a species of avant-garde composition in which concepts like tonality, serialism and Minimalism are beside the point. This is a world where pure sound and texture are of greater interest than…