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This re-evaluation of the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen is presented as a dialogue between its authors, conducted by email between July and October 2024. The dialogue takes as its starting point a consideration of the continuing relevance of Stockhausen’s music to music today, but begins by tracing the authors’ engagement with this music over the last five decades. The dialogue moves on to the discussion of a series of key aspects of Stockhausen’s work across his creative life, from Kreuzspiel to KLANG: the relationship between his electronic music and his compositional practice for acoustic instruments; form-schemes in his music and, in particular, the development of moment form; and his use of synthesisers. In conclusion, the authors assess Stockhausen’s influence on their own work and the extent of his significance for younger generations of musicians.
Monitored anesthesia care (MAC) has been increasingly utilized in anesthesia services for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures for various non-surgical and surgical procedures in the last several decades [1]. It is also steadily increasing in demand by many different medical specialties: cardiology for cardioversion, defibrillation, transesophageal echocardiography, pacemaker/defibrillator implantation or removal, cardiac catheterization, and other cardiac monitoring devices; gastroenterology for endoscopic examinations, potential biopsies, and other therapeutic interventions; urology for cystoscopy, etc. [1, 2]. MAC has also been gradually applied for more complex procedures in patients receiving endovascular aortic stent placements, transcatheter aortic valve replacements, and even sophisticated procedures like Mitroclip. The aims of MAC for procedures are to enhance patient comfort and cooperation, maintain airway patency and hemodynamic stability, thus facilitating efficient and safe completion of the scheduled procedures.
This article proposes a series of connections between the consumption of resources, the creation of new music and ideas about sustainability. A number of examples is discussed, from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, that illustrate the ways in which conspicuous, and often ethically questionable, consumption has been a signifier for innovation in new music. The article concludes by introducing three of the author's recent works, The calm of mountains, This has happened before and Hieroglyph, as models of a compositional practice that attempts to enact and embody ideas of sustainability.
This chapter considers how notation has been used, questioned, and re-made by composers over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It considers the ideologies behind notation as an interface between composer and performer, and offers some playful examples of notational strategies that invite collaboration with the performer by challenging assumed norms of interpretation and performance.
This article focuses on three recent works by the American composer Michael Hersch: the script of storms (2018), for soprano and orchestra, the chamber opera Poppaea (2019) and the 11-hour trilogy of works that have the overall title sew me into a shroud of leaves (2001–16). A discussion of aspects of these three scores will consider Hersch's deployment of a stylistically consistent musical language, his involvement with the work of the writers Fawsi Karim and Christopher Middleton and his articulation of often substantial spans of time.