tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142252532009-08-06T23:31:53.026-04:00Anthony CornicelloJerry Bowlesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-88527352730855756122009-08-06T22:48:00.002-04:002009-08-06T23:31:53.039-04:00One little quoteIt's amazing, how sometimes one little quote can sum up an entire artistic movement. I came across this as I was reading "The Rest is Noise" - a line attributed to Schoenberg: "If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art."I always wondered where Modernism's fear of populism (Aaron Copland aside!). I always thought that this attitude arose in the 1950s, in reaction to Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-65845904177980336622009-03-27T23:16:00.003-04:002009-03-29T19:48:42.204-04:00When times go bad...Curiously, I wasn't planning on tying together my last two postings into an odd trilogy. Nonetheless, I find myself rather dismayed at events taking place at William Paterson University.The other day, I got an email from Pete Jarvis saying that his position will not be renewed for next year. Now, I'm well aware that we're in a global financial mess, and that universities are certainly feeling Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-5844649343992592792009-03-22T01:12:00.004-04:002009-03-23T00:30:50.584-04:00When reviewers go bad.....Okay, I'm not going to talk about reviewers who are overly critical - you know the type! They've just heard someone blast through a program of unbelievable virtuosity, and they'll find some nuance they didn't like. They are truly annoying, but not the subject of my post today.No, I'm talking about a reviewer who is clearly out of his or her league, but refuses to admit it. This is more like Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-51128545846491517242009-03-19T00:42:00.004-04:002009-03-19T12:42:45.493-04:00Composer-in-Residence at William PatersonEarlier this month, I had the honor of being the 13th Composer-in-Residence (Hmm, good thing I'm not superstitious!) at William Paterson University. It's an honor to be amongst the composers who have been previously honored, like Babbitt, Crumb, Wuorinen, and Reich. Most importantly, it was a thrill being at William Paterson, where the enthusiasm of the students is downright electrifying.Most Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-62074993755383622062009-01-07T08:51:00.002-05:002009-01-07T09:48:22.073-05:00Well, I'm back....Okay, this has been a ridiculously long hiatus. Let me explain: have you ever had one project that took a lot longer than you thought it would, and it affected the next project, which then became a "rush"? Well, that's what happened to me: one big cascade of projects. The summer project (finishing my setting of Coney Island of the Mind) spilled over into the fall semester, which was quite Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-76994460642272490042008-06-12T00:55:00.002-04:002008-06-12T01:20:10.748-04:00Accordion Awareness MonthSeriously, today I found out that June is Accordion Awareness Month. You can read about it here. I only discovered this because I was looking for a good used accordion. Last year, I wrote a piece that included accordion, and I found it to be an instrument of immense possibilities. No, I'm not going to start writing Polkas. Stop snickering! I went to a local shop, and they have a used Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-71540688824675947062008-06-06T23:02:00.002-04:002008-06-06T23:27:12.700-04:00So I played with THroNGYes, that's the way it's supposed to be written.Throng is the product of about 20 years of work by my good friend Mike Rosenstark. Throng is an electronic performance group; it's quite like a rock/jazz group in its basic instrumentation, but the music is not really limited by style. When I sat in last week, it was more like acid/techno/jazz - at least from what I heard. From what you'll see Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-21206263103340926712008-05-18T00:10:00.003-04:002008-05-18T00:29:26.480-04:00Ageism, or justifiable limits?Hello again!Every now and then, a discussion flares up on a listserv like SCI's "scimembers" group. The issue of age limitations on competitions has come up in the past, and it recently generated a lot of discussion.In a nutshell, here's the issue: some competitions have an age limitation on composers. We've all seen things that read: "for composers who have not reached their 35th birthday by Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-20274070223355071712008-04-12T23:16:00.004-04:002008-04-13T00:02:50.441-04:00SEAMUS 2008, part 1This past week, I had the pleasure of attending the SEAMUS 2008 National Conference in Salt Lake City. To say the least, it was an interesting event. Over the years, I've been to conferences of all sorts. Most of the time, I find that there are a few pieces that I'd like to hear again, some that don't necessarily retain my interest, and many pieces that I don't want to hear again. SEAMUS 2008 Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-25680205922395317482008-02-17T23:12:00.002-05:002008-02-17T23:26:54.850-05:00Oddities...So, I've been searching high and low for some jazz MP3s. Some of these items are long out of print, or on an obscure label. Some are by artists outside the mainstream. In other words, these tracks are not on iTunes - or emusic.com, for that matter. It has led me to some bizarre sites. And, I usually don't find what I want.I recently came across "collectionmp3.net". They seem like a Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-2635335980097672792008-01-27T12:08:00.000-05:002008-01-27T21:10:06.008-05:00ICO Concert Disaster(s)This post has been moved to the front page of Sequenza21. Please visit it there and leave your comments.-ACAnthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-2363572539520310692007-12-09T22:33:00.000-05:002007-12-09T23:23:35.452-05:00Stockhausen: an appreciationI think Stockhausen was the composer most responsible for getting me into the whole European avant-garde scene. I remember coming across his music when I took my first 20th Century music course as an undergraduate. I'm sure I dismissed it, as I did most of the other things I heard then. I do recall, however, secretly liking Webern's music, even though on the outside I had no idea what it was Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-38682645055710208072007-12-07T13:01:00.000-05:002007-12-07T13:04:00.431-05:00Stockhausen (1928-2007)I just got this press release, announcing Stockhausen's passing.Sad to say, we've lost another creative soul.PRESS RELEASEThe composer Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away on December 5th 2007at his home in Kuerten-Kettenberg and will be buried in theWaldfriedhof (forest cemetery) in Kuerten.He composed 362 individually performable works. The works which werecomposed until 1969 are published by Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-44028392067205556902007-12-06T23:18:00.001-05:002007-12-06T23:18:39.379-05:00Eroica Trio at EasternLast week, the Eroica Trio came to Eastern Connecticut State University for a concert and master class. The event was sponsored by the Arts & Lecture Series at Eastern, totally out of our jurisdiction - basically, a note appeared to us saying that the Trio was coming, and we got the dates. Odd, but nice.Oddly, I wound up turning pages for Erika, the trio's pianist. Oddly, because it was Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-67485070037606110102007-11-18T22:54:00.001-05:002007-11-18T23:08:49.817-05:00A good Max/MSP Sampler?Okay fellow Max/MSP geeks:Does anyone know of a good Max/MSP sampler? At one point, there was samplor~, which did everything you'd expect from a sampler. It allowed you to set the 'home' key, range, loop points, etc. It was stable. Then, when Max/MSP converted to version 4.X, it was apparently never updated. So now, when you go to load it up into a new patch, you get the "fragload" error. Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-80646680247968314262007-11-16T22:21:00.000-05:002007-11-16T22:38:02.572-05:00Frank Zappa, freericeOkay, here's two totally unrelated links:Frank Zappa, talking on Crossfire in the mid 1980s. It's amazing how observant this man was - and how oblivious the guy in the glasses was! Pay no attention to the little blurb on the YouTube page: I don't think copyright is ever mentioned. Rather, the discussion is on censorship the the government. Zappa's prediction of a totalitarian theocracy may Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-728449888989648562007-11-12T15:03:00.000-05:002007-11-12T15:08:48.494-05:00Zen and the Art of Sampling?According to Dogen Zenji, "most people are not able to acquire the way-seeking mind of spritual awareness without deeply understanding that a day consists of 6,400,099,180 moments." (This was in "Being in Real Time" by Danin Katagiri Roshi, found in the Fall 2007 issue of Buddhadharma.)Okay, so being the geek that I am, I discovered that this is approximately 74,075 moments per second. That's Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-49814393599780018082007-11-07T09:46:00.000-05:002007-11-10T12:26:57.980-05:00Bad Plus Babbitt, SEAMUS, and other linksSorry, I but I couldn't continue the alliteration...Recently, there was an event for Alex Ross's book The Rest is Noise. (Do I really need to link this book?) The event involved EthanIverson, the pianist from The Bad Plus, performing a number of 20th Century works. You can read his comments and rehearsal notes on his blogsite Do The Math. It seems like one of those events that make me miss New Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-80897614888890101972007-11-03T00:11:00.000-04:002007-11-03T00:37:33.730-04:00Bailing, Bawling, and ButtstixBailingOkay, a few weeks ago I loudly proclaimed how I was using Open Music to write this piece. And, for a while, I thought it would work. But, I wasn't happy with the results, so I've set that material aside. I do this every now and then: make an attempt at integrating Open Music with my compositional techniques, and then I retreat. I'm not sure why, but the results I get just don't often Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-72156033198851157432007-10-22T22:14:00.000-04:002007-10-22T22:52:57.494-04:00Morton Feldman!This semester, I'm teaching a class on Music of the 20th (& 21st) Centuries. One of the benefits of teaching such a class is that it gives me the opportunity to revisit some composers that I've been neglecting as of late. During the early part of the course, I had a chance to sit down with some Ravel and Satie, and then some Messiaen. But most recently, I've been thinking about Morton Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-11017921078878159922007-10-14T23:00:00.000-04:002007-10-15T02:07:43.305-04:00Open MusicLooks like I'm actually writing a piece using Open Music.I've had this software from IRCAM for some time. And I've played with it - going through the tutorials, learning the logic behind the programming. (Okay, I've got to review their looping and recursion design, not to mention the odd way they use IF...THEM statements!) Basically, I think I understand how it's done. During the time I've hadAnthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-49995705777969366272007-09-24T21:57:00.000-04:002007-09-24T22:45:53.794-04:00Improvisation and ElectronicsTo my regular readers: (that's right, both of you!)I've invited my students to come and read this blog post. Hopefully, they'll comment and add to the discussion.=====================================I've been doing a lot of thinking about improvisation lately. Outside of totally free improvisation, the composer (or director) needs to be able to convey to players his or her intentions with the Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-91719812913470632432007-09-15T11:33:00.000-04:002007-09-15T11:56:13.754-04:00An inspiring videoAs a composer, you hope your pieces get played - more than once. We all know the routine of a piece getting played a handful of times and then having it be more or less forgotten. Sad, but true. Then, there are a few pieces that seem to have a bit of a life. After it's initial performance(s), the work is played by another performer, maybe a student somewhere, or another aficionado of Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-41213782288514005902007-08-20T08:43:00.000-04:002007-08-20T12:48:24.313-04:00Now this is censorshipThere are pages on the web that claim to demonstrate censorship. The usual story is a band wants to play on a show (let's say something like SNL or Letterman), and they are asked to cut an objectionable song. They do the performance, looking rather unhappy, without the offending song. Sometimes, the band refuses to cut the song, and they don't perform at all, or their performance winds up on Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14225253.post-46374140422736395082007-08-11T09:28:00.000-04:002007-08-11T10:23:36.917-04:00"Just Don't Call It Minimalism" - My takeOr, Six Critics in Search of a ClueWell, maybe that's a bit harsh.This would have been a great article in 1987. Then, the general population (or at least the 'classical'-loving population) had little idea who most of these people were.But today (and I did double-check the paper's headers, it was indeed published in 2007), we don't really need an 'introduction to minimalism'. And, if so, we can Anthony Cornicellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04023568293054000130noreply@blogger.com0