Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening

Submitted by fortune2 on Dec 09, 2009, 06:56 PM

Not knowing much about Oliveros and her performance style before the concert, I was open for anything when I went to the Krannert Art Museum.  I knew I wanted to attend because I did know that Oliveros was an accomplished, 77 year old woman playing radically creative music on a specifically modified instrument- a rare combination, something I did not want to miss. And that rare combination proved to be so much more.

The New Work of Composing

Submitted by Jentery Sayers on Oct 20, 2008, 12:48 AM
I recently attended the 2008 Watson Conference on "The New Work of Composing."  From that conference, a book having the same name as the conference theme will emerge, and the editors are approaching that book in innovative and exciting ways. 

Rivers Cuomo and Distributed Composition

Submitted by Jim Brown on Sep 15, 2008, 05:41 PM
Previously, on one of my other blogs, I wrote about Rivers Cuomo's collaborative song writing project, and I thought HASTAC scholars would be interested in how this project taps into the collaborative ethic of the Web.