Some Delightful Android Phone Apps

So Catherine got an Android Phone recently.  Today, she found some "talking" apps for it (from http://outfit7.com/), which play back anything you record into them, but with the spectrum modified.  The little animated characters in the apps move and sing the modified recording back to you.  So: A quick tour of 20th century aesthetics!  Sprechstimme from Pierrot Lunaire (Schoenberg); Percussion Music (Varese, Cage); the Dies Irae (quoted by just about everyone, but most recently (to my knowledge) used by Kenneth Gaburo as the theme to his 1987 Mangrove); the Ursonate (Schwitters); and Extended Vocal Techniques (as used by so many of us).  And all this in 1 minute!  Enjoy.

An Essay about Kenneth Gaburo from June

I haven't been posting for the past few months.  There's a lot to report, and I'll try to get some of the things on the website over the next few weeks.  

Last June 22, I was part of a symposium on the work of Kenneth Gaburo at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn.  Chris Mann, David Dunn and Larry Polansky were there in person, I was there via Skype.  As a preparation for that discussion, I wrote a little essay about Kenneth's ideas which I sent to all the participants beforehand.  Now, in October, on re-reading it, I think it might be interesting enough to share with people, and so you can download it here.