Non-crystal, fog: flight. (First two fragments of a later whole.)
The most recent edition of the CeReNeM Journal, run by postgraduates at the University of Huddersfield, contains an article I wrote about the painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Swedish composer Lisa Streich, exploring the trope of the Pietà in their works. Thanks go to Pedro Alvarez for instigating the project and editing this volume, and to […]
On Saturday, 8 March, Cologne-based ensemble hand werk are giving the first of the Harvard Group for New Music’s concerts for the year. In a mammoth programme that includes works by my colleagues here Sivan Cohen-Elias, Marta Gentilucci, Justin Hoke, Tim McCormack, Manuela Meier, Marek Poliks, Ian Power, and Sabrina Schroeder, they will play my […]
Wide open, the sweep and curve of gravity draws swerves out of the body. The dust that patterns remote points appears near: veined boulders, icebergs calved into air, sheets of dirty purple glass cornering into one another. A finger traces through the mist and repeats, trying to settle at a place of no dimensions full […]
The question of gender inequity in classical music is hardly a new one and just a few days ago, Alex Ross posted in the New Yorker including some more recent upsetting comments from Russian conductors about their female counterparts. Meanwhile in the francophone world, there has been heated debate about remarks made this week by […]