Swinging Modern Sounds #85: The Introduction of the Pitch
David Lang has been a musical hero of mine for a very long time. The piece wherein I understood, where I caught the bug, was a Lang composition for six pianos, recorded twenty-five years ago by the...
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Tim Hecker has waged a stealth campaign against the banality of contemporary electronic music for some time now. After giving up a career in politics and finishing a PhD in his Canadian homeland, he...
View ArticleBanksy and Sarcasm
How wonderful it must feel to go to “Dismaland” and see through society! But how awful to see society embrace art that makes you feel nothing, that makes you think only about the vast chasm between you...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Christopher Bollen
Christopher Bollen’s sophomore novel, Orient, is the kind of book that seems like it was written in a war room. Reading it, you can almost see the big board: an oversized map of the North Fork of Long...
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According to Shaj Mathew, novelists are more and more approaching writing as conceptual art, creating “readymade” novels. You can read his take on the “Reality Hunger generation” over at The New...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Will Chancellor
Will Chancellor’s debut novel, A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall, is an epic bildungsroman about an athlete-turned-artist, Owen Burr, who, in the opening pages of the book, suffers a gruesome,...
View ArticleMorning Coffee
The Context Project is seeking to blur the line between industrial design and fine art. It is also totally rad.Yesterday marked the 31st anniversary of the first robot homicide and the 50th of bubble...
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