Kerry O'Brien

Writer and musicologist, based in Seattle

[Kerry O'Brien @kerry_ob]

Don Cherry and Terry Riley, September 1970
in ON MINIMALISM, @ucpress
https://t.co/flvTgKUJ0N
photo via: @TerryRiley_info

[Will Robin @seatedovation]

so our #sam2024 minimalism panel tomorrow morning is going to be livestreamed if you want to watch!!

10:30am ET here: https://t.co/LQFJ742vRs

[a closer listen @acloserlisten]

The latest episode of Sound Propositions features scholars Kerry O’Brien and Will Robin discussing their recent anthology, On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement

@kerry_ob @seatedovation

https://t.co/4ds07ocW1v

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

As composer, improviser, electronic pioneer, and scholar, George Lewis is one of the major musical minds of our time. https://t.co/PSlop5HfrT

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Catherine Christer Hennix, a Swedish experimental musician and artist who fused minimalist drones, mathematical logic and global spiritual traditions into an approach she called “infinitary composition,” died on Sunday. She was 75. https://t.co/mqioTApe0s

[University of California Press (is on Bluesky) @ucpress]

🎉🎉🎉

[VAN Magazine @vanmusicmag]

On the VAN homepage this week:

An Alternative Minimalism Playlist: A musical movement beyond the four composers who came to define it, by @seatedovation and @kerry_ob

https://t.co/OCSNY7RKhq

[University of California Press (is on Bluesky) @ucpress]

"We reveal a bigger, unrulier, and more comprehensive musical minimalism, one that can help us better see all of the movement’s offshoots today."

Check out ON MINIMALISM by co-editors @kerry_ob and @seatedovation at our #AMS2023 exhibit
https://t.co/Xqzuwqj4VR

[Ryan Ebright @ryan_ebright]

CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON MEREDITH MONK
The new editorial team of American Music is excited to invite submissions for a special issue that will explore topics, issues, & debates surrounding the art & music of Meredith Monk. Details at: https://t.co/6MewfVTHn9

[Blank Forms @BlankForms]

Blank Forms, the Maryanne Amacher Foundation, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts are thrilled to announce that the Maryanne Amacher archive has been processed and is now available for public research!

Read more: https://t.co/ooAQjPZjSG

[CRB Classical 99.5 @CRBClassical]

In their new book "On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement," musicologists William Robin (@seatedovation) and Kerry O'Brien (@kerry_ob) capture the lesser-known stories of the minimalism movement and its development, era by era. @npratc @noahgcr https://t.co/bd8bVaLuqH

[CRB Classical 99.5 @CRBClassical]

"There's a lot of different things that are vying for our attention, and the ability to stay with something — stay with a drone, stay with a pattern, stay with yourself — is just such a valuable thing that minimalist music can teach you." @kerry_ob
https://t.co/uwtjvip27d

[Laurie Spiegel @LaurieSpiegel]

Excellent selection of music in this 2-hour broadcast by Peter Wetzler, in response to NPR's recent short feature on Minimalism:

https://t.co/4pJ0J0hzmn

[Will Robin @seatedovation]

Today on Sound Expertise: what it means to revive Julius Eastman's music with @MaryJaneLeach8, and the tensions and controversies of "Eastmania"

https://t.co/6KFrwYIIC6 or wherever you listen to podcasts

[Will Robin @seatedovation]

Check it out!

https://t.co/JwMaWUzEwS

[modern love @ourmodernlove]

Very happy and proud to be releasing a new album by Mary Jane Leach, ‘Woodwind Multiples’, on July 7th

[Fielding Hope @fieldinghope]

A gentle reminder that you can watch the film we commissioned for Counterflows at Home 2021, 'Annea Lockwood - A Film About Listening', for a mere £2.42. It's great, mainly because she's great. https://t.co/cP0oLoynrp

[Will Robin @seatedovation]

This week on Sound Expertise: the appropriation of indigenous music, and how an indigenous worldview could change Western classical music

A deep and enlightening convo with Dylan Robinson, on https://t.co/6KFrwYIIC6

(And yes, we talk about Roomful of Teeth)

[🇪🇺 Louise Gray 🇪🇺 @drlouisegray]

Thrilled to have written the cover story on the mighty Annea Lockwood for @thewiremagazine. Here she is, paddling in the Hudson.