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Perspectives of
New Music
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.


The New PNM/OS CD SERIES

“To be a forum for valuable musical thinking that might otherwise remain unavailable” describes the ethos of Perspectives over its history. A natural extension of this is included with PNM volume 47, number 1: the first in a series of CDs produced for our subscribers and other interested music-lovers by a collaboration of Perspectives of New Music and Open Space. These CDs will go to PNM subscribers as part of their subscription, and can also be purchased separately from Perspectives of New Music or the Open Space website.

This first CD in the series 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 future lies ahead.

Calls for Submissions

From time to time, the Editors have ideas for subjects that might be fruitful for PNM to explore.

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.

Collaboration and Improvisation

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.

Mathematical Modelling

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.

Fusion

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.