articles/book chapters

Exhibition catalogue: “ ‘The Fortissimo of Agitated Perception’: An Interview with Damir Ocko” (article for exhibition catalogue to accompany Damir Ocko’s solo exhibition On Ulterior Scale; to be published by Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in September 2011)

“Composing (with) Detritus: Traces, Texts, and Transcription in detritus I and detritus II” (to be published in New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, Vol. 8, 2012; Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, ed.)

Concert Preview: “Visionary Composer and Performer Luciano Chessa to Appear on Menlo-Atherton Academy of Contemporary Music’s Inaugural Event” (Atherton Almanac, 06 April 2011)

Book Review: Klangprojektion in die Zeit: Marcos Mesquita on Helmut Lachenmann’s STAUB (Open Space Nos. 12/13, Fall 2010/Winter 2011, 125-128)

Concert Review: “Luigi Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, March 1st, 2010” (SEARCH Journal for New Music and Culture vol. 7, Summer 2010)

CD Review: “Eliot Gattegno/Eric Wubbels Intersections (SEARCH vol. 5, Summer 2009)

“The Cycle as Compositional Category: Properties and Approaches” (Proceedings of the Aspen Composers Conference, Summer 2009)

“External Models and Modes of Mediation in Works of Xenakis, Stockhausen, and Grisey: Properties and Paradoxes” (Proceedings of 2nd Annual Music PhD Student Conference, Aristotle University Thessaloniki/University of Edinburgh, Spring 2009)

"Darmstadt 2008: The Negation of Gesture…or the Gesture of Negation?"  (SEARCH vol. 4, Spring 2009; re-printed in The Second Century of New Music: Search Yearbook Volume 1, 2011, 416-427)

“External Models and Modes of Mediation in the Works of Six Composers: A Descriptive Framework” (SEARCH Journal for New Music and Culture vol. 1, Winter 2008; re-printed in The Second Century of New Music: Search Yearbook Volume 1, 2011, 303-352)

“The Work in a State of ‘Sloshed Solitude’: Importation, Filtration, Palimpsest, and an ‘Aesthetic of the Noumenal’” (to be published as a chapter in a music/aesthetics book; Steven Takasugi and Wieland Hoban, eds.)

Program Notes: “The Influence of Schönberg upon Babbitt, Cage, Boulez, and Ferneyhough,” Schönberg-Center (Vienna), October 2005

Concert Review: “Motion, Masks, and Modes: A Concert of New Music at the Shepherd School” (Living Music, Autumn 2002) 

© Alexander Sigman 2011