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
David Tudor: Performer and Composer of Live Electronic Music
A listener unused to the coarseness and bite of analog electronic and computer music will find Tudor’s compositions invigorating. If you have ever tried to pull in a distant AM radio station only to be thrilled by the strange, extraneous noises that came and fled, Tudor’s electronic music is most assuredly for you.
David Tudor: Performer and Composer of Live Electronic Music
A listener unused to the coarseness and bite of analog electronic and computer music will find Tudor’s compositions invigorating. If you have ever tried to pull in a distant AM radio station only to be thrilled by the strange, extraneous noises that came and fled, Tudor’s electronic music is most assuredly for you.
Up from the Archives
Deutsche Grammophon’s Echo 20/21, Wergo’s Fortieth, and ENHB
An Eclectic Stringed Ramble
The Trio Voronezh can play anything, as this live performance recording from New Orleans will confirm.
An Eclectic Stringed Ramble
The Trio Voronezh can play anything, as this live performance recording from New Orleans will confirm.
Neither Bad Boy nor Bum: New Recordings of Ornstein and Partch
Ornstein’s career as composer and pianist blossomed at a time when it seemed possible to express anything with music.
Neither Bad Boy nor Bum: New Recordings of Ornstein and Partch
Ornstein’s career as composer and pianist blossomed at a time when it seemed possible to express anything with music.
December Ramble: NMC and Edition Wandelweiser Records
The Hoxton Thirteen is a collection of new pieces by 13 of the young composers represented at the Hoxton New Music Days of 2000, a summer festival in England. What’s most surprising — even alarming — is how similar some of these 13 efforts sound.
December Ramble: NMC and Edition Wandelweiser Records
The Hoxton Thirteen is a collection of new pieces by 13 of the young composers represented at the Hoxton New Music Days of 2000, a summer festival in England. What’s most surprising — even alarming — is how similar some of these 13 efforts sound.
One of the Year’s Best Books (and Then Some)
It’s probable that more has been written about Schoenberg’s ideas and influence than about the music itself.
One of the Year’s Best Books (and Then Some)
It’s probable that more has been written about Schoenberg’s ideas and influence than about the music itself.
November Ramble
This is a recording of a man reading philosophy. But the speaker says only single-syllable words and spaces them about eight seconds apart.
November Ramble
This is a recording of a man reading philosophy. But the speaker says only single-syllable words and spaces them about eight seconds apart.
An Assorted Ramble
I had never heard of Swiss composer Hermann Meier before this disc, and now I am eager for more.
An Assorted Ramble
I had never heard of Swiss composer Hermann Meier before this disc, and now I am eager for more.
An Eclectic Piano Ramble
This handful of discs features the piano in all sorts of forms and genres. We examine works intended to be played at the keyboard and inside the piano, others that alter the piano’s tuning, and those that require a synthesized instrument.
An Eclectic Piano Ramble
This handful of discs features the piano in all sorts of forms and genres. We examine works intended to be played at the keyboard and inside the piano, others that alter the piano’s tuning, and those that require a synthesized instrument.
A Personalized Ramble
Some readers will notice I haven’t lived up to my promises. The excuses aren’t worth mentioning, except that you should visit our newly reorganized archives, and be prepared to spend at least 12 hours a day there.
A Personalized Ramble
Some readers will notice I haven’t lived up to my promises. The excuses aren’t worth mentioning, except that you should visit our newly reorganized archives, and be prepared to spend at least 12 hours a day there.
Collections and Colecciónes
Nuits — weiß wie Lilien, The Carnegie Hall Millennium Piano Book, Kronos’ Nuevo, etc.
Collections and Colecciónes
Nuits — weiß wie Lilien, The Carnegie Hall Millennium Piano Book, Kronos’ Nuevo, etc.
An Assortment of Moderns, Part II
I was way pleased when the Grammys gave George Crumb’s Star-child the honors for Best Contemporary Composition of 2000.
An Assortment of Moderns, Part II
I was way pleased when the Grammys gave George Crumb’s Star-child the honors for Best Contemporary Composition of 2000.