The Ethics of Free Improvisation
Groups, individuals, and communities in music
The Musician's Path
My personal and professional focus is graphic scores, both of the postwar avant-garde in the 20th century and in their contemporary experience as a living art-form.
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"Wer für Geige schreibt…"
Writing within, about, and against tradition
Rehearsing Indeterminate Scores
Methods from research in the field
The Avant-Garde at the Academy: Rejecting Innovation
An ongoing series of preliminary findings from the field.
Historical Research: The Avant-Garde at the Conservatory
Some preliminary findings from the field
Maryanne Amacher
Some scattered reflections
Moving past the Symbolic
Thinking a bit about visual repertoire
Performance Practice for Indeterminate Scores
Or, how to "get good" when there's no precedent for "good"
One Pen to Rule Them All
Diving down the rabbit-hole of a very curious draughting pen.
Aleatoric Music-Theater
Practical problems with non-reproducible music-theater performance