The goals for recording music have evolved over time. ‘For much of the 1900s, the goal of recording technology was to make a listener experience being in a room as music was made, said Giles Martin, who went into the family business. In the 1960s and beyond with the constant introduction of new technology, that changed.”
As Trump Was Declared President-Elect, This Poem Went Viral…
“Campaign in poetry; govern in prose,” the old adage goes. This moment, though, has in many ways flipped that idea: The 2016 presidential campaign was decidedly lacking in poetry. Yet in its aftermath, as Americans consider the contours of their new government, they are, often, turning to poems: to Cope and her gallows humor.
Putting Abstract Expressionism In Its Place
“Unlike Impressionism or Cubism, Abstract Expressionism was not a style or a movement. What the five pioneers had in common was not a shared aesthetic, a painting technique, or a manifesto but a sense of the overwhelming importance of art, a bedrock belief in the power of painting to address ideas and emotions at the deepest level. That sense of importance was there from the beginning.”
Here’s The Best Part Of Morton Feldman’s Six-Hour String Quartet, Chosen By A Violinist About To Perform It
Andrew Bulbrook of the Calder Quartet explains why he likes page 107 best (and also how he and his colleagues prepare to perform a six-hour piece). (includes sound clips)