The Empire State and Strange Attractors
In a few works, Carter's All Trichord Hexachord (ATH) becomes a strange attractor.
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Periodic Phrasing, aka Middle Ground Rhythms
Thanks to JM for a quesiton about periodic phrasing in my Piano Trio, "25 Decades". It's a subject that appeals to me because so few talke about it. This is a guitar study by Fernando Sor. Some students hate Sor's music, …
Kentner Anderson's 25 Decades
a furiously developing piano trio
Napoleon, Montgelas and The Secularization of Aldersbach
Chiu Chen, Joan & Tim @ Summer Music Aldersbach 2026 //////// Maximilian Josef von Montgelas (1759–1838) — the man who, more than anyone, invented modern Bavaria, and the actual dissolver of Aldersbach. He's a …
Integrating the Urmehrdeutig, a Compositional Project (for anyone)
Back to music for a sec. With regard to *Mehrdeutigkeit* -- https://www.williamanderson.us/blog/neologism-urmehrdeutig/ Music that embraces pitch ambiguity can adopt a picaresque shiftiness. In Pythagorean music, which I …
Sociological Analogies to Pitch Pathologies
A passage in Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything — describing how Bali's rigidly hierarchical caste society nevertheless governs itself by consensus — suggested two sociological analogies for three compositional …