The Friday Informer: They Call That Musimathics

The Friday Informer: They Call That Musimathics

Adding, subtracting, and multiplying our way to glory.

Written By

Molly Sheridan

Photo of the Week: It’s a bird, it’s a plane…
It’s actually a two-ton, 3.5m x 3.1m x 4m, 2000-watt steel and aluminum mobile speaker that projects a distance of 1 km. Meet Matt Hope’s HORNMASSIVE (2004) [via boingboing]
  • It’s been an oddly giddy week of musical calculus, what with the jazz cryptologists and the stopwatch avant-gardists coming out to play.
  • However, though it’s very likely there’s something more interesting to this story than the numbers, the writer is not going to tell you what that might be.
  • Resemble a conductor you know?
  • This YouTube video has been around for quite some time, but it has only recently been determined that it will impact the future of classical music. Gosh darn those kids and the Internet.
  • Composers? I was under the impression storks brought them.
  • Ahhh. Make it stop.
  • When John Cage (and a bunch of other colorful folks) left messages for Charlotte Moorman.
  • Man makes a “Best of” list, and it’s not even close to New Year’s. Declares 4’33” a work that “whatever its philosophic merits, is decidedly uninteresting to listen to.” (Others disagree.) Discuss.