“Bowers’s is an ongoing, concerted project, anchored in the basic technique of exploring ideas by rewriting over songs and themes but retaining traces and echoes. These vestiges, distilled or distorted, become detachable gestures, mobilised and reprised in later works, taken forward and upward like a Hegelian Geist in Bowers’s ongoing musical dialectic.”
Category: Music
[Essay] A Walking Skeleton: Illusions of Voice — Michael Sutton
“What is human consciousness if not the internal voice, the connotations and denotations of language, voices diseased and voices subsumed, god voices, voices of creation, from brain to page to screen to brain to page.”
[Essay] Luciano Berio and Fragmentary Composition — Jack Sheen
“Music’s ontological status has always been ambiguous due its lack of materiality, in contrast to physical artworks such as paintings, sculptures, and to some extent, films, whose unique, material appearance and existence differentiates them from other artworks and copies.”
[Essay] Lost in Chinatown: Confusion, Music, more Confusion — Jacob Cunningham
“Throughout the film, the music continues to mix elements influenced by the classic Hollywood string sound and jazz of the 1930s with movements that evince how Goldsmith pointedly relates his work to the contemporary musical world surrounding him in 1974.”
