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Insider Look: Taylor Brook
Exploded Views (2016) Taylor Brook Most people are familiar with exploded views from putting together Ikea furniture: they are the diagrams that display all the individual parts separated out, showing how they may be assembled, usually via dotted lines connecting the parts. A musical phrase may be understood as a set of connected parts and Continue Reading »
Insider Look: Lewis Nielson
…in terra aliena…(2015) Lewis Nielson in terra aliena deals directly with the structure and demeanor of the trial of the American revolutionary John Brown in Charlestown, Virginia (now West Virginia). After a series of all-too-predictable events in the US involving race relations and issues, I asked myself if there had been even one white American Continue Reading »
Insider Look: Natacha Diels
Princess Nightmare Moon (2016) Natacha Diels Fairytales for performers: Phantasms return Adjourned spirits draw near Six heads snap left Nervous glances Pages turn. Scornful wistful slow singsong Lonesome hiss of air expired A silver lining, deceptive mirror Pages turn. Carved from cotton candy, A transient ritual— a fragile fancy. natachadiels.com Wanna hear and see what Continue Reading »
