Roundtable

  • Should We Teach Experimental Music to Children? Part 4

    by Vic Rawlings

    Vic Rawlings

    I believe that a student’s sense of authorship/ownership of the music they make comes largely from their unguarded enjoyment, discovery, and their very act of going for it. Organizations that are based on order and the subjugation of the individual for the supposed betterment of a group endeavor have no investment in individual authorship.

    December 4, 2010

  • Should We Teach Experimental Music to Children? Part 3

    by Lionel Marchetti

    Lionel Marchetti in class

    For children, nothing is a problem if you present what you know as you know it and if you don’t try to oblige them with a detached attitude.

    November 18, 2010

  • Should We Teach Experimental Music to Children? Part 2

    by David Dove

    Workshop at Austin High School (Houston, Texas) 2009

    Improvisers are uniquely qualified to fill a void in an education system that is only becoming more obsessed with rigid standards, quantifiable results, hierarchies, standardization, institutionalization and systemization.

    October 4, 2010

Music

  • Put Me On the Guest List: Athens

    by Howard Stelzer

    Nicolas Malevitsis

    Nicolas Malevitsis: “In the city of Amphissa, there’s the house of a friend who hosts various things. She’s a great source of inspiration for lotsa friends up there. I totally wish to have this kind of insanity in my 60′s, as she is today, and do things with her intensity and passion.”

    November 25, 2011

  • Show Me Your Studio: Sickness

    by Howard Stelzer

    chris - rack

    “Every good studio with a modular needs a cat, right?” – Chris Goudreau / Sickness

    August 19, 2011

  • Put Me On the Guest List: Cave 12

    by Howard Stelzer

    Cave12 crew at écurie 2010 (photo by Marion Innocenzi)

    “It’s really important for musicians to have a large existing network of spaces all around the world in order to travel and present their work. Cave 12 was born in Geneva where, before us, there were absolutely no regular experimental concerts at all.” – Fernando Sixto, Cave 12

    June 11, 2011

Sound Art

Culture

  • Mondo Marhaug: A Film Diary 9

    by Lasse Marhaug

    mondomarhaug9

    Ever wonder when you’d read an Intransitive article with Ryan Gosling in it? Your wish has been granted. You’re welcome.

    December 18, 2011

  • From the Editor’s Desk: Trajectory

    by Howard Stelzer

    Everyone has a story about how they got into “noise”. Here’s mine.

    November 13, 2011

  • From the Editor: Songs From the Teachers’ Lounge

    by Howard Stelzer

    Making music is often described as something that artists need to do. That’s always seemed like a romantic idea to me, but I never really understood how it felt until now.

    August 20, 2011