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Articles by Frank Oteri

Frank J. Oteri, New Music USA's Composer Advocate and the Senior Editor of NewMusicBox, is an outspoken crusader for new music and the breaking down of barriers between genres. Frank’s own musical compositions reconcile structural concepts from minimalism and serialism and frequently explore microtonality.

Harnessing the Random Element
March 1, 2001 / By

What exactly is a jazz composer and what constitutes a jazz composition?

The Jazz Composers Collective on Creating and Performing
March 1, 2001 / By

Photo by Lourdes Delgado

February 8, 2001 at The Jazz Standard, NYC
Members:
Ben Allison Frank Kimbrough Ted Nash Michael Blake Ron Horton
with Frank J. Oteri
Conversation transcribed by Karyn Joaquino

Precedents for the Collective

Mutual …

Joan Jeanrenaud: A Fourth Approach to Performing Music
February 1, 2001 / By

Joan JeanrenaudPhoto by Marion Ettinger, courtesy New Albion Records

Joan Jeanrenaud talks with NewMusicBox editor Frank J. Oteri at her home in San Francisco, CA, about her unusual post-Kronos career
Friday, November 9, 2000
Transcribed by …

Sitting in Different Rooms
February 1, 2001 / By

The very expression “chamber music” designates music that is site specific more than anything else.

Finding the Center of American Music
January 1, 2001 / By

Despite our relatively short history as a nation, the United States boasts an artistic landscape that is arguable the most culturally diverse in the world.

John Adams: In The Center Of American Music
January 1, 2001 / By

John AdamsPhoto by Christine AlicinoCourtesy Nonesuch Records

Just three days after completing the score for El Niño, a 110-minute "Christmas oratorio" for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, John Adams invites NewMusicBox editor Frank J. Oteri …

Pauline Oliveros: Creating, Performing And Listening
December 1, 2000 / By

Pauline Oliveros

Frank J. Oteri meets with Pauline Oliveros at Mills College, Oakland CA
Wednesday, November 8, 2000, 8:30 – 10:00 p.m.
Transcribed by Lisa Kang

Defining a Legacy
Rethinking the Canon
Texas
Role Models and Contemporaries
Electronics and Indeterminate Music
Collaboration …

Sensing Music: Hearing, Listening, and Not-So-Deep Listening
December 1, 2000 / By

Listening is still a woefully underdeveloped sense compared to sight.

Intellectual Property Rights and the Dissemination of Dot.Org Music in a Dot.Com World
November 1, 2000 / By

Frank J. OteriPhoto by Melissa Richard

No issue has been more divisive to people in the music community than the current debate over the free dissemination of music over the Internet and that dissemination’s inherent …

Carl Stone: Intellectual Property, Artistic License and Free Access to Information in the Age of Sample-Based Music and the Internet
November 1, 2000 / By

Carl Stone

California-based composer, radio host and computer music guru Carl Stone meets NewMusicBox editor Frank J. Oteri at the American Music Center
Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 10 AM – 12 p.m.
Filmed by Jenny UndercoflerTranscribed …