William Burroughs prophesies Twitter more than 30 years before it was invented: suppose you want to bring down the area go in and record...

'Nevertheless, Early Music is potentially this kind of performance practice or listening experience which doesn't believe in the...

I keep hearing the same argument in the West regarding Ukraine's problematic past, both the second world war and a more recent one. As if...

What unsettles me about recent advancements in neural networks is AI-assisted writing. Not the student essays (students have always been...

Mysterious, playful and a tad eerie. It almost seems like a subtle premonition of the sound recording and reproduction technology nearly...

One of the issues I've been dealing with in my practice is the production of spiritual meaning while neither resorting to religion nor...

My ear and the machine are acting up. The ear, weary after partial hearing loss years ago; the potentiometers, weary after years of use....

The sound crawls and clambers. It graces with weight the unlit suspended air. And then it flurries, scatters, disseminates. Only to...

An entertaining story about Josquin Despres, the famous Franco-Flemish composer of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, who by his...

In Time Regained I came across a quotation from Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History, a critique of, among other things, objective...

Order and chaos, determinism and indeterminism, tectonic and atectonic as formative dichotomies in music history. For generative or...

Max Reger demonstrates how to modulate from C major to B sharp major. From the Twitter account of Threatening Music Notation.

Recipes against melancholy by Hildegard of Bingen and Constantine the African. From Nastasja Khrushcheva's 'Metamodern in and Around...

The Incas were known to have complicated recording devices fashioned from strings of the wool of llamas and alpacas and a cyclical...

It turns out that the image of the kind-hearted society lady with a doggie was known at least as far back as the fourteenth century....

Ghostly polyphony of Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian': 'In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange...

Cormac McCarthy's critique of enlightened colonialism in Blood Meridian takes on an unexpected twist in an era of new ethics:

Lithuanian melody from a folk wedding song, with which Stravinsky, in The Sacred Spring, paints "pictures of pagan Russia":

Anatoly Ryasov on sound in silent films, 'Barely audible hum: an introduction to the philosophy of sound' (translated from Russian): 'In...

Sound as a phenomenon, not the quality of an object, in a deafening passage from Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying'. And the listener as the...