Tag: Serialism

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

Post author By Mike
Post date May 25, 2009

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 form and syntax. That’s not to say that form and syntax are outlawed, but works in the Either/Or repertory are just as likely to be governed by game theory as by standard notions of musical structure.

Principles of Spectralism (netnewmusic.net)
Charles Dodge, “Cascando” (netnewmusic.net)
Lukas Foss, “Night Music” (netnewmusic.net)
Petr Kotik presenting ‘Music of Words’ at UAlbany – Albany Times Union (netnewmusic.net)

Tags Arts, Avant-garde, Composer, Composition, Game theory, Music, Serialism, The New York Times Company

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RIP Henri Pousseur

Post author By Mike
Post date March 10, 2009

: 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 protest song “We shall overcome” (Couleurs croisées).

Iannis Xenakis, “Polla Ta Dhina” (netnewmusic.net)
Arnold Schoenberg didn’t faze Opie (hermenaut.org)
George Perle, a Composer and Theorist, Dies at 93 (nytimes.com)

Tags Anton Webern, Art, Composer, Composition, Darmstadt School, Henri Pousseur, Music, Serialism

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