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Living an Improvised Life: Lynn O’Brien Shares How MECA Helped Her Fulfill a Years-Long Dream

Aug 7, 2018
When Lynn O’Brien won a Minnesota Emerging Composer Award (MECA) in 2016, she knew exactly wha...
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Bobby McFerrin, circle singing, improvisation, Jerome Foundation, Lynn O'Brien, MECA, Minnesota Emerging Composer Award, Rhiannon, vocal
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John Keston: Musical Synthesis and Sonic Environments

Apr 20, 2015
By Tim Hansen On a bare hill overlooking the village of Burnley in Lancashire, England, stands the S...
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improvisation, Isao Tomita, john cage, moog, Singing Ringing Tree, synthesizer
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Gabriel Zucker: Maximalism and Negative Space

Feb 20, 2015
Written by Tim Hansen “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing l...
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banff, improvisation, mahler, maximalism, negative space, stravinsky, the delegation
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