The American composer, performer, and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros performed a two-day Deep Listening Intensive and Sonic Meditation alongside her partner, author and dream specialist Ione, and jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran and his band, the Bandwagon, on April 1 and 2 as part of the 2016 Artists Studio at the Park Avenue Armory in […]
Author Archives: William Dougherty
William Dougherty is a composer, sound artist, and writer based in Seattle. His work has been published in Tempo, Music & Literature, and elsewhere. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the experimental interdisciplinary arts journal openwork and co-editor of a special issue of Contemporary Music Review on the music of Éliane Radigue.
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Free But Alone
No one composer, perhaps in the history of Western classical music, was more active in averting history’s prying eyes than Johannes Brahms. Brutally self-critical about his own work and exceptionally shy when it came to his personal life, Brahms sought to preserve his legacy by keeping his private thoughts out of the grips of unforgiving […]