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Tag: Serialism

  • 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…

  • RIP Henri Pousseur

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    Henri Pousseur (via last.fm) Henri Pousseur passed on late last week. Generally regarded as a member of the Darmstadt School in the 1950s, Pousseur’s music employs serialism, mobile forms, and aleatory, often mediating between or among seemingly irreconcilable styles, such as those of Schubert and Webern (Votre Faust), or Pousseur’s own serial style and the…