I wanted to write about Lachenmann, but none of the articles I’ve been reading are available freely on the internet. That huge bummer led me to search for open-access, peer-reviewed music writing on the web. I found some neat stuff.
- “What I Call a Sound”: Anthony Braxton’s Synaesthetic Ideal and Notations for Improvisers, by Graham Lock
- Form-Building Transformations: An Approach to the Aural Analysis of Emergent Musical Forms, by Lasse Thoresen, who is really interesting and deserves more attention than this single link. Maybe after the term ends.
- Composing the Pacific: Interviews with Lou Harrison, by Maria Cizmic.
- Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Paranoia and the Technological Sublime in Drum and Bass Music, by Dale Chapman. Takes as its starting points the soundtrack to the film π and Photek’s Two Swords Technique, both of which are classics dear to my heart. I learned to play Two Swords Technique on drum set with Steve Wilkes at Berklee, this makes me want to bust it out and start practicing.