Includes bibliographical references and discography.
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface / John Zorn -- Rants / Richard "Duck" Baker -- The outcome is unforeseen : some preliminary notes / Eve Beglarian -- Music mind at the stone and beyond / Karl Berger -- In search of the new density / Claire Chase -- Blank screen / Anna Clyne & Elizabeth Tasker -- Building music / John Corigliano -- Life preserver/In the wilderness / Jeremiah Cymerman -- To [re]think of Milton Babbitt / David Fulmer -- Behind the mask, or, I didn't know what time it was / Jeff Gauthier -- Performance and interpretation / Alan Gilbert -- We are all Beethoven / Judd Greenstein -- Troubadours' dilemmas / Hilary Hahn -- The invented horizon is free / Mary Halvorson -- How I came to write a few songs / Jesse Harris -- Death speaks / David Lang -- Why do I write music the way I do? / Mary Jane Leach -- Spectral music as a framework for improvisation / Stephen Lehman -- Righting wrong notes / Steven Mackey -- "He said what?" / Rudresh Mahanthappa -- China diary / Denman Maroney -- Rock hemiolas / Brad Mehldau -- Process, creativity and planetary returns / Jessica Pavone -- Old and lost muses / Tobias Picker -- Dreamy bits / Gyan Riley -- Lines in red sand / Jon Rose -- To a gathering of percussionists / Steven Schick -- Lelewå : memoirs of a bone and voice tracer / Jen Shyu -- Flukey concatenations / David Taylor -- Some memories of John Cage / Richard Teitelbaum -- John Henry / Julia Wolfe -- Wollesonics / Kenny Wollesen -- Small, still voice / Nate Wooley -- A note on BBM / Charles Wuorinen -- About the musicians -- Recommended listening.
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