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Comments on Rock
Comments on Rock Luciano Berio One evening, many years ago (maybe 15), in the house of Roberto Leydi, I heard a series of quite rare recordings curated by Alan Lomax, in 1938, for the Library of Congress in Washington. In these recordings Jelly Roll Morton, the first great jazz pianist, recounts the story of jazz…
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Significant Scores
“Significant scores” (2008) Domenico ‘Mimmo’ Napolitano Translated by Joseph Sannicandro “The musical instrument is a machine useful to man. But not only useful for producing notes, and not at all neutral; with its techniques, it is the concrete custodian of the choices made in continuity and, like buildings, has a memory. The sounds produced by…
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