Cambridge University Press publishes Robert F. Waters’ “The Stage Works of Philip Glass”, the first analysis to focus on the American composer’s stage output. Cambridge University Press has just published The Stage Works of Philip Glass by Robert F. Waters, the first analysis to focus on the American composer’s stage…

The publishing house Peu de Mosca publishes a series of articles by Spanish composer Joan Magrané, with his more personal “Sentimental Anthology of Catalan Music”. A few weeks ago, the new publishing house Peu de Mosca published Antologia Sentimental de la Música Catalana [a sentimental anthology of catalan music], a…

Wolke-Verlag publishes “VOCAL Adventures” by avant-jazz singer and teacher Lauren Newton. Lauren Amber Newton (Coos Bay, Oregon, 1952) is an American avant-garde jazz and free improvisation singer better known in German-speaking European countries than in the United States as one of the founders of the Vienna Art Orchestra – Vienna’s…

David Bernabo publishes his conversations with (and about) composer “Blue” Gene Tyranny. American composer and pianist “Blue” Gene Tyranny (San Antonio, Texas, 1945-Long Island, New York, 2020) died on 12 December 2020 of complications from diabetes. He was an extraordinarily eclectic musician, who played with Iggy Pop – they met…

“Exploring Xenakis”, by Alfia Nakipbekova, in commemoration of the Xenakis centenary. Although originally published in 2019 by the American academic book publisher Vernon Press, the fact that 2022 marks the centenary of Iannis Xenakis is a good occasion to bring back the essay Exploring Xenakis, conducted by Kazakh cellist and…

Urbanomic publishes Mattin Artiach’s essay on his performance “Social Dissonance”. Social Dissonance was, first of all, the title of the artistic/musical project with which the Spanish artist and composer Mattin Artiach (Guecho, Vizcaya, 1977) participated in 2017 in documenta 14, the fourteenth edition of the artistic event held every five…

Published a book of “Conversations” between Steve Reich and nearly twenty musicians. Steve Reich is one of the world’s leading composers and his figure, at the age of 85, continues to grow, with works such as Traveler’s Prayer, composed in Los Angeles in 2020, during the worldwide confinement imposed by…

“Common Tones”, by Alan Licht. American Alan Licht (New Jersey, 1968) is not only a guitarist, musicologist and composer, but also a music critic and specialist in minimalism. A regular contributor since 1999 to Wire (Adventures in Sound and Music), Licht is also the author of the book Sound Art:…

“Escribir en el agua”, by John Cage. Escribir en el agua. Cartas (1930-1992), by John Cage (Caja Negra Editora, 2021), is a translation to Spanish (by the Argentinean artist Gerardo Jorge, who also wrote the prologue) and a selection of the “selection” that was already The Selected Letters of John…

“Arcana X”, by John Zorn (various authors). Twenty-five years ago, in 1997, John Zorn published Arcana, a first volume of texts – theoretical essays, interviews, critiques, manifestos, etc. – on new music and the avant-garde, written by the very musicians Zorn considered most outstanding and/or qualified to do so. That…

“Sounds Beyond”, by Kevin C. Karnes. Kevin C. Karnes, musicologist and associate dean for the Art and professor of Music History at Emory College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta, is a specialist not only in the work of Arvo Pärt, but in the sonic expressions of “identity, difference and…