The Friday Article Roundup: Let’s Experiment
This Week You Will Eff Around and Find Out About: Avant-garde horror Experimental 60s editing…
Year of the Month: Jason Tucker on FIREWORKS
Watching a Kenneth Anger film over the 4th of July weekend feels more transgressive than…
It’s All Fun and Games… 8 X 8: A CHESS-SONATA IN 8 MOVEMENTS (Year of the Month)
This film deals with the world of fantasy. It is a fairytale for grownups. –…
All God’s Children: John Cage’s Apartment House 1776
(Clearly all the Americana aspects of Ives are in the way of sound coming into…
Elliott Carter: the Last Modernist
Pictured: Igor Stravinsky (l.) and Elliott Carter The ideal has many names, and beauty is…
Aspiring to the Condition of Music: on Stan Brakhage
“Remember, God didn’t say ‘I’m gonna make light now,’ He said ‘Let there be light.’…
The Solute Record Club: Between the Notes
Like the two-party system, the notes and scales used in almost all the music we…
Memento Mori: THE ACT OF SEEING WITH ONE’S OWN EYES (1971)
The trajectory of Stan Brakhage’s approximately 50-year career moves from films he shot himself with…
John Cage’s Final Work: ONE¹¹ (1992)
Once, in the mountains of Costa Rica, I spent an afternoon watching clouds. I didn’t…
Bootleg Discoveries: Industrial Symphony No. 1
Julee Cruise was the voice of The Road House in Twin Peaks, frequently being featured…