The first two days of the 2010 Donaueschinger Musiktage got me thinking more and more about two related words, and how they play out: transparency and risk. Another way to put it might be the turning what is inward, outward. … Continue reading
The Callithumpian Consort performed a concert of Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, and Christian Wolff right in my home city of Boston on September 28th. I went to the first 45 minutes of a meeting, and then awkwardly ducked out to … Continue reading
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort…. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting.” As I drove from Charlotte to Charleston for the first set of events in Michael Pisaro: 2000-2010, a conspectus, … Continue reading