Next week, I'm playing an overlapped, simultaneous concert with Francesco Tristano, this time at Le Poisson Rouge in New York. It's billed as "[ Simultaneo ]." In the advertising it says: "Two concerts at the same time!" A manifestation of remix culture for sure -- it's Girl Talk Classical! In Echternach in 2009, we did an overlapped performance, a continuous 70 minutes of sound made with two pianos. Glass's music was overlaid with Carl Craig. … [Read more...]
Police witness
In U.S. criminal trials, juries are instructed that testimony given by police officers is no more or less reliable than testimony given by other witnesses. It has to be scrutinized. After Foucault, it seems absurd that in classical music we might still be so obsessed with "what the Composer wanted." Idris Khan: every ... stave of Frederick Chopin's Nocturnes for the piano We have texts. Texts that can be read variously, can be entered … [Read more...]