Please recommend blogs for new academic concert music / modern composition

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This is mostly addressed to Milton Parker, whose knowledge of the New Music warrants my deep respect. There are any number of archive sites for canonical names in modern composition, but I haven't encountered many that focus on current recordings. The final chapter of The Rest is Noise made me realise just how dated my knowledge of had become, formed mostly by John Schaefer's book, Blue "Gene" Tyranny's reviews for an old AMG, and occasionally peeking in at Kalvos and Damian. Few of the names were familiar, I went in search of things like Der Gerettete Alberich, only to find fragments.

I know that this field is as fragmented as popular music, but my overviews are over a decade old. Who is a trusted canon maker that can point me to the potentially important? I'm fairly positive that there's more than Max Richter detritus to hunt down.

Deliquescing (Derelict), Monday, 26 October 2009 01:39 (fifteen years ago)

nothing i consider definitive, but these are worth a read/listen:

http://www.analogartsensemble.net/blog.html
http://www.overgrownpath.com/

sites that are not exactly blogs:
http://artofthestates.org/
http://www.newmusicbox.org/

Paul in Santa Cruz, Monday, 26 October 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/
http://www.thewatchfulear.com/

Turangalila, Monday, 26 October 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.avantgardeproject.org/index.htm

I think I originally found out about this place via a rec from Milton.

WmC, Monday, 26 October 2009 03:39 (fifteen years ago)

http://olewnick.blogspot.com/
http://nightafternight.blogs.com/

Turangalila, Monday, 26 October 2009 03:49 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.nobleviola.com/wordpress/

Turangalila, Monday, 26 October 2009 03:57 (fifteen years ago)

The Rest of Noise isn't that up-to-date is it? Doesn't it end at the mid-70s?

I see that the Jack Quartet, who are highly thought of, have released a CD of Xenakis string quartets - don't much like those pieces, wish they had been able to coherently select from their repertoire instead.

We should try and do a key pieces of the noughties type thing at some point.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 October 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago)


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