Tag: Music

  • Please Yaeger don’t hurt ’em

    My thanks to Vorarlberg’s Rheingold Quartet for sending me a review of their concert in August, which included the premiere of the commissioned work “Patchwork Suite“. The reviewer said some nice things about the piece, and described my writing with the words “hard-hitting tonal language” (knallharte Tonsprache) Which I would totally put on business cards,…

  • AI the death of music?

    It strikes me that the hyperventilation about AI and music – see fake Drakes, illegal “scraping” of artists’ work to “train” the machines, AI-generated music forming a major portion of Sp*tify’s repertoire etc. etc. – is almost all coming from the pop scene. And I’m not talking about the underground/indie/art/pop scene; I’m talking about the…

  • Petit Mal: A brief history of a longish piece

    On June 16th, my piece Petit Mal, with text by Carolyn Amann, will premiere in Hohenems, Vorarlberg. It’s been a bit of a long and winding road getting here.

  • Why I don’t like “Why Americans Don’t Like Jazz”

    There’s an article by a gentleman named Dyske Suematsu making the rounds at the moment. It’s largely the usual sort of American-bashing but there are other elements to it that have been bothering me. The thesis is, put very simply, that the American listener is getting progressively lazier and thus jazz is dying out. Now,…