Articles by Year: La Folia, 2004.

Dear La Folia 13.

The season’s changed and it’s no longer mandatory to light an evening fire. This means music listening unaccompanied by the fan in our wood-burning stove.

Dear La Folia 13.

The season’s changed and it’s no longer mandatory to light an evening fire. This means music listening unaccompanied by the fan in our wood-burning stove.

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.

Pump and Circumstance

If you’re expecting sugary, syrupy sentimental twaddle, think again!

Pump and Circumstance

If you’re expecting sugary, syrupy sentimental twaddle, think again!

Random Noise 7: To Be Listenin’ or Not to Be Listenin’

I’m holding a CD (I type with my toes) I recommend to the callow as a glimpse of What Was and, to those as long in the tooth as I, a souvenir of the Great Foolishness.

Random Noise 7: To Be Listenin’ or Not to Be Listenin’

I’m holding a CD (I type with my toes) I recommend to the callow as a glimpse of What Was and, to those as long in the tooth as I, a souvenir of the Great Foolishness.

Balkan Snapshots

Beth recently spent three weeks in the former Yugoslavia performing and teaching piano under the sponsorship of the United States State Department…

Balkan Snapshots

Beth recently spent three weeks in the former Yugoslavia performing and teaching piano under the sponsorship of the United States State Department…

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.

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…

Random Noise 6: Super OTW Lives!

Back when hi-fi’s included AM-FM tuners, I would listen now and again to a New-York-area DJ who played music of the Baroque, for the most part Italian.

Random Noise 6: Super OTW Lives!

Back when hi-fi’s included AM-FM tuners, I would listen now and again to a New-York-area DJ who played music of the Baroque, for the most part Italian.

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.

Random Noise 5: Successful Trespass

The utterly charming sound-world of Tom Hamilton’s London Fix, Music Changing with the Price of Gold traces its impetus to a neighbor’s computer with its “colorful stock charts,” specifically “the contours of the spot gold market as defined by the twice-daily London Fix.

Random Noise 5: Successful Trespass

The utterly charming sound-world of Tom Hamilton’s London Fix, Music Changing with the Price of Gold traces its impetus to a neighbor’s computer with its “colorful stock charts,” specifically “the contours of the spot gold market as defined by the twice-daily London Fix.