This episode of Sound Propositions features scholars Kerry O’Brien and Will Robin, editors of the recent anthology On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement. Described as … More
Category: Academic
INDISCREET MUSIC
Patrick Nickleson is the author of The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art, Music, and Historiography in Dispute, an academic study that radically reconsiders … More
BOOKS ON MUSIC
My ten contributions to ACL’s 40 Best Books on Music (part one, part two) Derek Bailey ~ Improvisation: Its Nature … More
Subversive Communication Nine Years After 68
[Bologna, 1977] Semiologist Umberto Eco, professor at the University of Bologna, author of The Open Work and The Absent Structure, … More
Sonic Topographies of the South
Sonic Topographies of the South: Rural Futurity as Resonance and Dissonance One of my earliest sonic memories is of the … More
Signs and Sensibility: On the Saturation Machine
Yet another seminar paper on Derrida, this one from Spring 2016. “For not all the parts of a thought can … More
The Duty to Listen
Another old unpublished paper, this one from Spring 2015. Though I readily acknowledge the problematic nature of wasting any more … More
“But who, we?” Derrida’s Ends of Man
This short text was written in December 2005, as an end of term paper for an undergraduate philosophy course at … More
CENSOR
Q. and not U. (or, Conspiracy Means To Breathe Together) a plunderphonic radio play https://files.cargocollective.com/c1063507/qandnotu.mp3 Presented as part of Disinformation … More
The Real Cost of Austerity
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has once again brought the economic failures of austerity politics into stark relief. It may very … More
Comments on Rock
Comments on Rock Luciano Berio One evening, many years ago (maybe 15), in the house of Roberto Leydi, I heard … More
Significant Scores
“Significant scores” (2008) Domenico ‘Mimmo’ Napolitano Translated by Joseph Sannicandro “The musical instrument is a machine useful to man. But … More
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