Re: James Tenney

Ahh, thanks that helps quite a bit.

It's a good thing that he's interested a lot in harmony. He seems a
bit daunting in person but I think there's at least some common ground.

Ryan

herb@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In article <3vKdnUkQfLXq6LneRVn-tQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steve Layton
> <dalgas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "RyanT" <yidijm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1126456711.990334.191270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, the whole reason I ask is because I do get the feeling that I
> > > might be banging heads with him since a lot of my approaches are
> > > pretty
> > > unparticular since I usually work with arbitrary materials to try to
> > > mold stuff into some kind of structure. Although, if he's good as
> > > people say he is, I guess I might be worrying about nothing.
> >
> > He's very good, as teacher and composer (performer, too). You can
> > learn a lot. If you want to know a little more beforehand, you can
> > visit these:
> >
> > http://musicandnature.publicradio.org/interviews/#tenney
> >
> > http://kalvos.org/tenneyj.html
> >
> > http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4247
> >
> > http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/ARTICLES/TENNEY/kahn.html
> >
> > www.newworldrecords.org/linernotes/80612.pdf
>
> I agree with most of what Samuel & Steve have written, Tenney's a good
> teacher and interested in a fascinating array of real theoretical (as
> opposed to (music theory) issues in music and perception.
>
> In addition to the links that Steve provides, here's a good NY Times
> article (with a link that won't expire) from when there were a couple
> of concerts of Tenney's music last spring:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/9m62v
>
> &, while their new Web site doesn't provide access to much of the
> content from previous issues, the Canadian new music mag Musicworks
> has published many articles by and about Tenney over the years. It's
> likely that Cal Arts has this magazxine in it's library, but you can
> order back issues from the Web site:
>
> http://www.musicworks.ca/

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