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This group of practitioners is imagining the future of the accordion
I can see that look in your eyes. That thirst. “Please, Peter, regale us with esoteric information about contemporary accordion playing technique.” Absolutely. Let’s do this. You see, for all the extremist ideologies social media and the Internet are amplifying, well, at least experimental accordion practitioners are finding each other, too. And maybe it’s worth […]
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A festival to ponder the nature of time
Now, following a century of recording and broadcast, where does musical performance go next? That challenges not just space or culture, but reimagining the place of time itself in the performance. Berlin is a fitting place to contemplate time. Once home to Albert Einstein, it helped incubate modern general relativity. At its southwest is Mendelsohn’s […]
Peter Kirn - March 18, 2016
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Non-Oblique Strategies: Author on the Discipline of Making Music
The blank screen. The half-finished project. The project that wants to be done. We talk a lot about machines and plug-ins, dials and patch cords, tools and techniques. But the reality is, the most essential moments of the process go beyond that. They’re the moments when we switch on that central technology of our brain […]
A Concerto for iPad and Orchestra, as a Composer Takes on Tablet as Instrument
Peter Kirn - June 5, 2012
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Kinect-Controlled, 4-Story Pipe Organ, a Phantom of the Organist
Peter Kirn - April 9, 2012
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