“Automation Divine”: Early Computer Music and the Selling of the Cold War.
NewMusicBox, October 10, 2018.
A fillip into the strange sociology of the first experiments in computational composition.
Month: October 2018
If That Ain’t Love Wot Is?
Score: Remembering Felix Arndt.
Boston Globe, October 4, 2018.
The why and wherefore
RIP. This was always my favorite, with a deeply satisfying pop progression that makes room for a moment of wonderfully dizzying weirdness: that shift in the bridge, D-flat major to E-flat major, functioning as V/ii/♭III to V/V.