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…

“Ein Konzert ist eine Feuerstelle, María de Alvear” Conceived as a kind of greeting for María de Alvear Muller’s sixtieth birthday (in reality, the composer was born on 25 October 1960 in Madrid), the German publishing house Wolke Verlag has published, in German only, Ein Konzert ist eine Feuerstelle (A…

“The History of Bones”, by John Lurie. The American saxophonist and composer John Lurie, founder of the “fake jazz” band The Lounge Lizards, who has been retired from live music for two decades due to Lyme disease, has published the first volume of his memoirs in Random House: The History…

“Unstrung”, by Marc Ribot. Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist, written by American guitarist Marc Ribot, is published today by Akashic Books. The musician became known worldwide in the 1980s, playing for Tom Waits, but the list of artists who have relied on his talent ranges from John…

“Deep Listening”, by Pauline Oliveros. The American composer Pauline Oliveros passed away in November 2016. Apart from her music, she is known for the concept she launched to explain it: “deep listening”, which she elaborated in a 1988 text, and which she defined as “hearing with the ears and listening…