Managing Editor Grant Chu Covell works in the Boston area. He once worked for a global technology company that made hardware which Xenakis and Babbitt used to good effect. He was the publisher of the brilliant but forgotten The Periodic Journal of Bibliography (1990-95), and his music reviews have appeared in EAR Magazine and InMusic. His instrumental and electroacoustic music has been performed in the U.S. and abroad, and he has shared many CDs of his music with family and friends (one piece was recorded in a refrigerator). A short article about a composition he wrote for piano and tape can be found in the Csound Magazine. Two electroacoustic works have appeared in commercial compilations: Presence III and The Door Project. A recent CD can be found here, and another is in preparation. A long departed family dog’s name was taken from a character in Wagner’s Ring.
Grant Chu Covell
Notes from the Great Vacuum
These days, recordings provide my musical nourishment, with live music as a special occasion. In CDs I look for near-perfection, something satisfyingly well-done that will sustain my interest on repeated hearings.
Notes from the Great Vacuum
These days, recordings provide my musical nourishment, with live music as a special occasion. In CDs I look for near-perfection, something satisfyingly well-done that will sustain my interest on repeated hearings.
Project Notes, Part 28b
At the edge of a neglected cemetery facing the sea, provide 12 pianists with copies of the European Union’s Constitution transcribed into Morse code.
Project Notes, Part 28b
At the edge of a neglected cemetery facing the sea, provide 12 pianists with copies of the European Union’s Constitution transcribed into Morse code.
From Other Worlds: Bancquart, Hunt, Schoenberg’s Handwriting, the Vihuela
A trusted friend hands you a strangely colored gemstone. It seems to glow from within — a thing from another solar system.
From Other Worlds: Bancquart, Hunt, Schoenberg’s Handwriting, the Vihuela
A trusted friend hands you a strangely colored gemstone. It seems to glow from within — a thing from another solar system.
Schoenberg’s “Mis-Handel-ing” and Other Curiosities
We dwell rather on a few monstrous creations by composers who should have known better. Step at your own risk behind a dingy sideshow curtain to gawk at a shelf of specimens in dirty jars.
Schoenberg’s “Mis-Handel-ing” and Other Curiosities
We dwell rather on a few monstrous creations by composers who should have known better. Step at your own risk behind a dingy sideshow curtain to gawk at a shelf of specimens in dirty jars.
A Surprise in ‘Most Every Box
Produced in conjunction with a 1999 Swiss Mariétan exposition, this obscure 1998 Terra Ignota CD documents several installations and projects.
A Surprise in ‘Most Every Box
Produced in conjunction with a 1999 Swiss Mariétan exposition, this obscure 1998 Terra Ignota CD documents several installations and projects.
La Folia Lost a Dear Companion
W.A. Grieve-Smith, 1928-2004.
Georges Aperghis and Die Hamletmaschine
Rich with nuances often lost in translation, Aperghis’ work readily communicates emotional extremes with comic flair.
Georges Aperghis and Die Hamletmaschine
Rich with nuances often lost in translation, Aperghis’ work readily communicates emotional extremes with comic flair.
RetraCE We NeW E CarteR
Although he continues to produce music at a remarkable pace, his is hardly a household name due largely to an unapologetically dissonant (but never serial), arrhythmic style.
RetraCE We NeW E CarteR
Although he continues to produce music at a remarkable pace, his is hardly a household name due largely to an unapologetically dissonant (but never serial), arrhythmic style.
Distinctive Americans: Cage, Rochberg, Wolpe, et al.
Folks who sample HPSCHD and like it (some Cage fans will be flabbergasted) might be recalling personal involvement in a comparable event.
Distinctive Americans: Cage, Rochberg, Wolpe, et al.
Folks who sample HPSCHD and like it (some Cage fans will be flabbergasted) might be recalling personal involvement in a comparable event.
Albert E. Wier, Music Editor Extraordinaire
The Macmillan Encyclopedia was spectacularly riddled with inaccuracies. But Slonimsky’s summation unfairly tars a nearly four-decade career.
Albert E. Wier, Music Editor Extraordinaire
The Macmillan Encyclopedia was spectacularly riddled with inaccuracies. But Slonimsky’s summation unfairly tars a nearly four-decade career.
Nono’s Shrug at Immortality: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
Graffiti sparked Nono’s late works.
Nono’s Shrug at Immortality: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
Graffiti sparked Nono’s late works.
The Nyman Bug
To home in on Nyman’s appeal: his brazenness and fast-moving chord progressions.
The Nyman Bug
To home in on Nyman’s appeal: his brazenness and fast-moving chord progressions.