Pages tagged “speak volume”

• • Decrease
  • Reset
  • Increase
  resize
• print
• send

Nico Muhly: Composing from the A.D.D. Camp

Hometown: New YorkAlbum: Mothertongue For Fans Of: Björk, Steve Reich, Bang on a Can Don’t get Nico Muhly started on categories. Don’t even waste time bringing them up because the composer will ignore any suggestion that boundaries mean anything nowadays, and he’ll plow forward in his rapid-ricochet speaking style on his loves and, amusingly, his hates: “I love the idea of making an album, working within the confines of that fixed unit, which is still how I experience music,” and, “I’m in opposition to Beethoven as he’s done now. It’s like arriving at a bar at 6 p.m. and some...  read more