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
Dipping into the “EA” Bucket 1.
On September 24, 1961, David Tudor and others gave the first electroacoustic music concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil…
Dipping into the “EA” Bucket 1.
On September 24, 1961, David Tudor and others gave the first electroacoustic music concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil…
Meat, Potatoes, Parsley: Eötvös, Kagel, Leifs, Pritchard, Stäbler, B.A. Zimmermann
Listen to a sandbox. BMC opens a fascinating view onto an original creator’s work with “Electrochronicle,” wherein Eötvös revisits 1970s electroacoustic work and improvisations.
Meat, Potatoes, Parsley: Eötvös, Kagel, Leifs, Pritchard, Stäbler, B.A. Zimmermann
Listen to a sandbox. BMC opens a fascinating view onto an original creator’s work with “Electrochronicle,” wherein Eötvös revisits 1970s electroacoustic work and improvisations.
Heavy Rotation in 2003: Czernowin, Formenti, Guerrero, Harada, Harrison, Serkin, Pollini
Possibly, a more truthful title: “Best of 2003 Based on an Arbitrary and Random Selection Assembled by Someone with Predictable Tastes.”
Heavy Rotation in 2003: Czernowin, Formenti, Guerrero, Harada, Harrison, Serkin, Pollini
Possibly, a more truthful title: “Best of 2003 Based on an Arbitrary and Random Selection Assembled by Someone with Predictable Tastes.”
Tales of Two Cultures: Hashimoto and Hosokawa
Although they both studied in Europe, the two men were exposed to different educational missions. Hashimoto would assimilate himself into the Western aesthetic, whereas Hosokawa’s European teachers encouraged him to consider his identity and culture.
Tales of Two Cultures: Hashimoto and Hosokawa
Although they both studied in Europe, the two men were exposed to different educational missions. Hashimoto would assimilate himself into the Western aesthetic, whereas Hosokawa’s European teachers encouraged him to consider his identity and culture.
Four Symphonies: Reduced, Amplified, Completed and Unnecessary
One needs but a moment to get used to the intimate café texture whose Viennese litheness underscores the exquisite Schubertian opening dip.
Four Symphonies: Reduced, Amplified, Completed and Unnecessary
One needs but a moment to get used to the intimate café texture whose Viennese litheness underscores the exquisite Schubertian opening dip.
Luc Ferrari, Head and Tail
EMF has reissued seven early pieces, frenetic gems of musique concrète, and Blue Chopsticks presents a new work, Cycle des Souvenirs, an ambiguous and inviting panorama.
Luc Ferrari, Head and Tail
EMF has reissued seven early pieces, frenetic gems of musique concrète, and Blue Chopsticks presents a new work, Cycle des Souvenirs, an ambiguous and inviting panorama.
A Dernier CRI, Slices of Cantaloupe, and Schlag from Vienna Modern Masters
This is one of CRI’s most persuasive releases and also one of its last.
A Dernier CRI, Slices of Cantaloupe, and Schlag from Vienna Modern Masters
This is one of CRI’s most persuasive releases and also one of its last.
American Symphonies on Naxos and First Edition
Whether one looks forward or back, Naxos and First Edition Music are two labels making significant contributions to American symphonic music.
American Symphonies on Naxos and First Edition
Whether one looks forward or back, Naxos and First Edition Music are two labels making significant contributions to American symphonic music.
Echt und Ersatz: Mahler, Bruckner, Rott, Zemlinsky, et al.
With Berg just ’round the corner, it’s been easier to tackle Boulez’s explorations of the purely orchestral Mahler symphonies, especially the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth.
Echt und Ersatz: Mahler, Bruckner, Rott, Zemlinsky, et al.
With Berg just ’round the corner, it’s been easier to tackle Boulez’s explorations of the purely orchestral Mahler symphonies, especially the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth.
Italian Vacation 1.
More than any other 20th-century composer — and like the Gabrielis, the other great Venetian composers centuries before him — Nono wrote music sensitive to the performance space’s acoustics.
Italian Vacation 1.
More than any other 20th-century composer — and like the Gabrielis, the other great Venetian composers centuries before him — Nono wrote music sensitive to the performance space’s acoustics.
Unfamiliar Masters
…Lieberson labels this collection a “snapshot autobiography.” We get crisp and clear — and a tad severe — performances of eight works spanning 26 years.
Unfamiliar Masters
…Lieberson labels this collection a “snapshot autobiography.” We get crisp and clear — and a tad severe — performances of eight works spanning 26 years.
Things That Are Not Quite What They Seem
Humor in music is a delicate business. Everybody involved — composer, performer and audience — must be familiar with a library’s worth of background in order to savor a moment-long gag.
Things That Are Not Quite What They Seem
Humor in music is a delicate business. Everybody involved — composer, performer and audience — must be familiar with a library’s worth of background in order to savor a moment-long gag.