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Performance Practice: Lessons from Music for 18 Musicians
Percussionists Bob Becker (left) and Russell Hartenberger performing Music for 18 Musicians at Park Avenue Armory (2026) I recently attended a dress rehearsal for composer Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians (1976) at Park Avenue Armory. Many of the musicians who played on the 1978 recording of the piece were performing (including my teacher), which… Continue reading
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Taking Measure
It starts with the crosswalk sign the walking guy turns into a flashing hand and the time counting backwards numbers I trace under my breath and sync with my footsteps then I look up and around and notice other measures billboards flickering car horns beeping pedestrian counterpoint the fading light felt as clock counting subdividing… Continue reading
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Second Hand Clock
The second hand of the clock at the dry cleaners is racing I notice it as she’s charging my card just over ten dollars the minimum fee most second hands go tick-tick even if the ticking is a silent measure you see its discrete steps a mechanical resistance against forward motion but this hand is liquid a Dali-esque melting… Continue reading
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On Sinister And Dynamic Rhythmic Energy: Laurel Halo’s “Oneiroi”
“I guess I just wanted to record what I was doing live. Basically when I got into the studio to record those tracks I found myself playing around with the patterns more, playing around with the samples more, trying to find what was particularly gripping, or dynamic. I wanted the tracks to have this sinister… Continue reading
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