What Book Are You Currently Reading? (2.0.)

[If my soul was made of stone]

A copy of You Nakai's Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor's Music has been sitting on my desk largely undisturbed for two weeks now. I've been meaning to read it for ages, since Tudor is one of my favorite composers and a major influence on my own work, but thus far I've only had the patience to leaf through it a bit and peruse some of the scores and diagrams. A professor in my department asked me if I'd had a look at it last week, after I'd made reference to some of Tudor's work in a presentation that I gave at the department seminar; he said that he'd ordered a copy when it just came out that's still in limbo.

[If my soul was made of stone]

Cathy van Eck's Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments, on the recommendation of a former professor, as study material for a High Concept piece I've been deep in the slow process of precomposing for about a month. Experimental music is a rare field of culture in which the Dutch are in fact progressive and admirable.