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Perspectives of New Music
is directed to a readership consisting of
composers, performers, scholars, and all others interested in any kind
of contemporary music. Published material includes theoretical
research, analyses, technical reports, position papers by composers,
sociological and philosophical articles, interviews, reviews, and, for
special purposes, short musical scores or other creative productions.
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“To be a forum for valuable musical thinking that might otherwise remain unavailable”
describes the ethos of Perspectives over its history. To this end, we are producing a series of CDs for
our subscribers and other interested music-lovers, in a collaboration of
Perspectives of New Music and Open Space. These CDs will go to PNM subscribers occasionially
as part of their subscription, and can also be purchased separately from
Perspectives of New Music or the
Open Space website.
The first CD in the series, mailed with Volume 47, number 1, contains recent multi-lingual work for voices
and percussion by Jean-Charles François (Slam della Mund-aliénation) and
three works by the late George Cacioppo (Moves Upon Silence; Dream Concert;
Pianopiece 11: Informed Sources). The second CD will appear with Volume 48, number 1.
The second CD was mailed with PNM volume 48, and contains Interface Chapel by Matthew Barber
and Ballade by Christopher Bailey.
The third will be a boxed set of several CDs, to be mailed with PNM volume 49,
containing many pieces composed in honor of Milton Babbitt,
on the occasion of his passing.
The PNM/OS CD series
Tilings in Music (PNM 49/2)
John Rahn and Emmanuel Amiot are co-editing a special package for PNM volume 49, number 2 on the theory and practice of tilings in music. Much has been written recently using tiling to model rhythm (canons), following the seminal article by Dan Vuza in PNM. ("Supplementary Sets and Regular Complementary Unending Canons," Perspectives of New Music 29/2, 30/1, and 30/2.) There has also been work structuring pitch fields and pc space using tiling theory. And there has been a renewal of general mathematical research in tilings.
Uncharted Territories
Perspectives is always especially interested in writings that are in some way not like anything else we have published before--about people who make music who have not been discussed before in our pages, or about some music that is new to us but important to the writer, or in general, exploring musical phenomena which have up to now not been given notice in our pages.
Multi-Media Art and Music
So many contemporary art installations include sound or music, and much contemporary music is produced in some multi-media environment. Articles exploring this territory are welcome.
A Thousand Plateaus
This influential book by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari may be stimulating for thinkers about music, not so much for what this book itself says about music, but in the implications of its approach. Articles relating thought in this area to contemporary music are welcome.
The Editors would like to see submissions
about recent artistic collaborations, and about
the improvisational process--musicians with
musicians, musicians with dancers and choreographers, musicians
with painters and sculptors, and so on. We are especially
interested in articles which illuminate new or strangely
successful modes of working together, or which describe
artistic results of a particularly simulating nature.
We welcome submissions which use mathematics to model
aspects of
music in new and powerful ways, which may prove
useful or inspirational for artistic creation.
We also welcome reflections on what the musical
usefulness of mathematical methods might be.
The contemporary Western art music world is
increasingly involved
in hybridization with the musics of other traditions and
cultures, and with various genres of popular music. The
layers and degrees of commercialization are increasingly
complex, and the relations between commercial and
artistic motivations for music-making are dynamic and
often ambiguous. We continue to encourage submissions
to Perspectives of New Music which expose and explore
this world.
Collaboration and Improvisation
Mathematical Modelling
Fusion