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
An Assortment of Moderns, Part I
Nono might not be your thing, but this is an extraordinary recording and it does much to document what contemporary stage works can be about.
An Assortment of Moderns, Part I
Nono might not be your thing, but this is an extraordinary recording and it does much to document what contemporary stage works can be about.
Recordings of new and recent music
Charmed by his first experience of a music fair (a convention where closely spaced booths are simultaneously demonstrating different music products), Kagel constructed this 41-minute work, a “kaleidoscope” where “ different situations unexpectedly succeed one another and coexist simultaneously.”
Recordings of new and recent music
Charmed by his first experience of a music fair (a convention where closely spaced booths are simultaneously demonstrating different music products), Kagel constructed this 41-minute work, a “kaleidoscope” where “ different situations unexpectedly succeed one another and coexist simultaneously.”
A Wake for Montaigne?
I pick up releases on Montaigne without question, even if composers and performers are totally unknown to me. Others here at La Folia have written about Montaigne re-issues and favorites, and I just can’t keep quiet.
A Wake for Montaigne?
I pick up releases on Montaigne without question, even if composers and performers are totally unknown to me. Others here at La Folia have written about Montaigne re-issues and favorites, and I just can’t keep quiet.
Scrooge, Saxes and Sonic Circuits: Four from Innova
A fresh handful of new Innova releases demonstrates the American Composers Forum’s diversity and commitment in attending to new American music and performers.
Scrooge, Saxes and Sonic Circuits: Four from Innova
A fresh handful of new Innova releases demonstrates the American Composers Forum’s diversity and commitment in attending to new American music and performers.
CEC and Digital Rewind
CEC and Digital Rewind: 25th Anniversary of MIT’s Experimental Music Studio
CEC and Digital Rewind
CEC and Digital Rewind: 25th Anniversary of MIT’s Experimental Music Studio
The Year’s Best
The Year’s Best Piano release, plus Mahler, Andriessen, Aluminum and Glass
The Year’s Best
The Year’s Best Piano release, plus Mahler, Andriessen, Aluminum and Glass
Two Italians on Mode
At first glance, Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi could not seem further apart.
Two Italians on Mode
At first glance, Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi could not seem further apart.
Franco Donatoni
I first encountered Franco Donatoni’s music in a stack of discarded reviewer’s copies. Perhaps I was taken by the familiar names of the performers, or the colorful CD booklet, or that most of the music had single word titles except for that enigmatic German phrase which somehow seemed familiar.
Franco Donatoni
I first encountered Franco Donatoni’s music in a stack of discarded reviewer’s copies. Perhaps I was taken by the familiar names of the performers, or the colorful CD booklet, or that most of the music had single word titles except for that enigmatic German phrase which somehow seemed familiar.
Two new Cage recordings
One expands the canon, the other controversial…
Stockhausen is Invisible
Stockhausen has historicised himself: very little of his work since embarking upon Licht has made it across the Atlantic, and he has almost vanished from America’s contemporary musical life.
Stockhausen is Invisible
Stockhausen has historicised himself: very little of his work since embarking upon Licht has made it across the Atlantic, and he has almost vanished from America’s contemporary musical life.
Five from Pogus
New from Pogus… comes a new release from If, Bwana titled Clara Nostra, for 106,476 clarinets…
Five from Pogus
New from Pogus… comes a new release from If, Bwana titled Clara Nostra, for 106,476 clarinets…
Michael Nyman, Pierre Henry, and the CEC
Philips Music Group France has embarked on a wonderful project by releasing/reissuing the music of Pierre Henry.
Michael Nyman, Pierre Henry, and the CEC
Philips Music Group France has embarked on a wonderful project by releasing/reissuing the music of Pierre Henry.