The Origins of Variation and the Library of Congress Commission, "JUSTICE"
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In a series of wide-ranging interviews and discussions, Roger Reynolds discusses various threads woven through his life and music. They include the use of text, thoughts on sound spatialization, site-specifics works, intermedia, technology in music, his compositional methods, and relationships with other composers (including Iannis Xenakis, Toru Takemitsu, John Cage, and Elliott Carter). Composer, author and educator Roger Reynolds is University Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California, San Diego. The Roger Reynolds Collection is held at the Library of Congress, and contains manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, recordings and other primary source materials related to Reynolds' life and work. In Part 4 of this series, the discussion begun in Part 3 is continued here, with a focus on Roger Reynolds' compositions Variation and JUSTICE. Reynolds is interviewed by David Plylar of the Music Division, with their discussion addressing topics like the concept of variation and development, nascent and extrapolated forms of material, timbre and differentiation, logarithmic and other non-linear concepts in music, second hearings, reconciling algorithmic and other compositional needs, establishing the "normative," "formative" and "performative" within and across works, structures of opportunity, and decision making, textual maps in JUSTICE, comprehension of complex designs, listener access to composer-defined references, serialism and intuition, gestural…
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