Superposition is the ability of a quantum system to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured.
–from WhatIs.com
String Quartet No. 2–Starting the 2nd movement
Category: Music
Documenting the available recordings of Ussachevsky and Luening’s 1952 concert
Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening performed a concert of new electronic music on 28 Oct 1952 at the Museum of Modern Art. From Paul Griffiths’ Modern Music and After:
Continue reading Documenting the available recordings of Ussachevsky and Luening’s 1952 concertThe Russian-born Vladimir Ussachevsky (b. 1911), who taught at Columbia University, gave a demonstration of the new medium’s potential in 1952, and he was soon joined in his endeavours by Otto Luening (b. 1900), who had studied with Busoni. They presented the first concert of electronic music in America, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on 28 October 1952: representative of the pieces then heard are Ussachevsky’s Sonic Contours and Luening’s Fantasy in Space, based on the sounds of piano and flute respectively. Out of their efforts grew the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, which was formally founded in 1960.
Paul Griffiths, Modern Music and After
Concert posters from years ago
Out late recently, we were talking about the long-defunct (31 Oct 1998–8 Jan 2005, r.i.p.) Echo Lounge in East Atlanta and the concerts we had seen there. Well, we were talking about that cinderblock place where we used to see concerts? and couldn’t remember it’s name at first. “E” something? Finally got there.
Continue readingSuite for Turntables and Piano
Suite for Turntable and Piano — Expression
I’ve been.. a week? into the final movement.
The title is stolen from the giallo film by Sergio Martino, starring the classic giallo actress Edwiga Fenech, called Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key. Like all giallo it’s expressionist thriller, and this title comes from a previous film of his (same year, also Ms. Fenech) where a hapless victim receives a written message saying, without context and never explained: “your vice is a locked room.” We all have our creative byways.
