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This week, we’re inspired by the always brilliant David Smooke’s NewMusicBox piece “Repeat Attendance.” How do we balance the value of newness and novelty with the seemingly inherent appeal of the familiar?
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David Smooke: “Repeat Attendance”
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Tagged audiences, David MacDonald, David Smooke, Music is Hard, new music, newmusicbox, newness, novelty, programming, Repeat Audiences, SoundNotion, Tim Rosenberg
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The panel takes on arts funding in Europe, checks out the new Spotify app “Classify”, discusses David Smooke’s thoughts on the Genius Myth, and more!
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- Teenagers like weird ugly music? Find these weirdos here and here also.
- European governments give lots of money to the arts, until they run out of money.
- The new Sound and Music program in the UK isn’t making all composers happy.
- Banjo great and musical innovator Earl Scruggs dies at 88.
- Spotify has a new app to help sort your classical music.
- The Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis is making a robot Glenn Gould (do they know that it will need to grunt and groan while playing).
- FoTS David Smooke wants us to get past the Genius Myth.
- OH! And FoTS Tim Rosenberg brings his steely eyed pragmatism to the SN panel.
- James Lindsay‘s Sanbiki no kashikoi saru – rdio – Amazon MP3
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Composer James Holt joins the panel to discuss jerks, doppelgangers, pie charts, composer as critic, poetry as analysis, sqwonkification, Osvaldo Golijov and more.
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- James Holt joins the panel to discuss the week’s news, his podcast, and sqwonkification of Action Items (performed by Sqwonk of course).
- News Flash! Rush Limbaugh is a jerk. The Philadelphia Orchestra pulls its adds from his show.
- Joshua Bell’s doppelganger burglarises his hotel room in Spain (we’re not making this up).
- FoTS Rob Deemer? Some say he’s crazy. I say he’s channeling Dr. Suess.
- Anne Midgette ponders the musician/composer as critic.
- FoTS David Smooke takes his gender inequality with a little pie.
- The absolute, final, no-need-to-discuss-this-anymore-whatsoever last word on the Osvaldo Golijov controversy. More on this next week.
- The new Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas is big and beautiful and full of potential.
- Action Items by James Holt, perf. Sqwonk – Amazon MP3
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This week on SoundNotion the Greenwood/Penderecki duo drop some new sounds, Alex Ross gets his own festival, the panels parses some Smooke Schtick, Opera Carolina is giving it away for free and Kyle Gann considers “quasi-objectivity” in music.
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- FoTS Alex Ross gets a festival inspired by his book The Rest Is Noise
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- Jonny Greenwood and Krzysztof Penderecki collaborate on a new album! Wonder who will play guitar?
- FoTS David Smooke wants to know about Schtick vs Style.
- Opera Carolina wants your children to become addicted! “The first time’s free.”
- Kyle Gann says that composers must exercise their “Quasi-Objectivity.”
- And we listen to some yMusic. Why Music? NO, yMusic.
Not being the most newsworthy week, the panel takes to the blogs to find some cool stuff happening online including a candid post by Yvonne Lam, new music scores on YouTube, a profile of the GVSU New Music Ensemble, and much more.
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- Help us with our “Best of 2011” clip show. Suggest your favorite moments from past episodes!
- Yvonne Lam is a quitter, but that’s alright. This kid is a risk-taker!
- Friend-of-the-show David Smooke applies The Guardian’s 10 Rules for Writing Fiction to experimental music.
- Ólafur Arnalds has some living room songs you should check out on YouTube. Is this the future of the music video?
- The GVSU New Music Ensemble is still making waves. What makes them so special?
- The Rambler lets us know about a YouTube channel that posts new music with scores karaoke-style.
- Symphony No. 8 “Autumn Fragments” by Aulis Sallinen performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, directed by Paavo Järvi – Amazon MP3
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