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Composers as Works of Art

Interview with Atmosphere Press

Please find below a recent interview I did with Atmosphere Press about Tennis Players as Works of Art. How did it feel when you first saw your book cover? Or when you first held your book in your hands? The book cover was beautiful. It consisted of eleven different artworks from eleven of the forty-five […]

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Erik Satie, Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes, Art by Preciada Azancot

“A great owl watches from his tower in the red night. Two notes in golden irises dance like two pears. He takes an umbrella and puts on his hat. Then he closes his tower and dances in silence.”–Preciada Azancot Music as anti-revolution revolution. Music going nowhere, Lent et doloreux. A Gymnopedie or Gnossienne does not […]

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Claudio Monteverdi, Art by Bernardo Strozzi

Galileo turns his telescope outwards towards the heavens. Monteverdi turns his microscope inwards towards emotions. The background dark, the coat even darker, in Strozzi’s portrait.  Monterverdi’s eyes probing, intense. His left hand rests on one of his innovative scores, his right hand touching its notes as if to explore his new world of sounds. Forget […]