#avant-garde

Designing the Revolution: How the Russian Avant-Garde Entered Everyday Life

Art and the New State

Letters I Never Sent: Dear Susie Hodge

Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That

John Moran: A Potter’s Field

The illustrated and poetic audio-visual memoir of composer John Moran, and his life as an avant-garde composer, including a chaotic…

TPFTKO excerpt

Available on Barnes & Noble…

quidua

is past, not -Like structures, just just just.

Nakhodka — Episode 1

I have overeaten far too much up until now. How will I repay this karma in the future? I must reap what I have sown. The moment thoughts…

(((RAAYOR worLd))) Like a new L_iMHOi. (((---txt

true saying,

Interview: Wolf Eyes Look to Immerse AS220 in the Abstract

Based in the Detroit area, Wolf Eyes are a musical entity that utilizes the avant-garde aesthetic to its fullest extent. This is through…

A beginner’s guide to Scala: the microtone tuning software nobody teaches

Scala is the universal file format and software package for importing and exporting microtonal scales

The Architecture of the Unfathomable: Navigating a 400-Page Enigma

What happens when a book rejects the traditional structure of language to become a pure state of being?

Playtime

Playtime, one quickly discovers, is not the sort of film that ambles along in the usual narrative fashion, doffing its cap politely to plot…

A panel discussion featuring the great tuning theorists from Pythagoras to Harry Partch

Welcome, gentlemen, to what must surely be the most temporally improbable gathering in the history of music theory — we have assembled here…

Use 34edo’s 4-fold symmetry to play purer chords

How 34-equal temperament’s “tetracot” structure improves on standard harmony

Art That Demands Unlearning

Why creativity is just as much about how we consume the world as what we produce

14 small microtonal scales that sound good on your first try

A list of approachable pentatonic and hexatonic scales with microtones

GPT-Image-2: The Power of Context

Not just another image model.

Day 1378

A little bit of this and a little bit of that. A little bit of brainrot and a little bit of AI slop. I log onto Twitter (now known as X)…

December 2025. Blast (issue 1), edited by Wyndham Lewis

1914, The Bodley Head, 206 pages. Written in English, read in English

Music review: Eyvind Kang, Riparian (Kou Records, 2025)

I first happened upon the experience that is Eyvind Kang back in my days of being a Tzadik freak, perusing the label’s site for anything…

A Page of Madness: Piano Works from Silence

Creating Music for a Silent Masterpiece with AI and Ear-Copy Techniques

Ballet Mecanique

Ballet Mécanique (1924): A Choreography of Machines and Modernity

Incomplete work no. 10: A sub-total work of art

Richard Wagner imagined the creation of a Gesamtkunstwerk, a “total work of art,” in which all forms of art could be synthesized, each art…

Two Movies in One: The Zone of Interest (2023)

Reading notes: Italo Calvino — If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

There are many amazing things in Calvino’s novel. The meta nature of the work, the detailed explanation of the literary tricks the author…

女神與怪物：歌爾蒂．弗勒莉希 Gertie Fröhlich 的前衛藝術之路

歌爾蒂・弗勒莉希（Gertie Fröhlic）不僅是一位獨立、自由的藝術家，更是推動維也納戰後前衛藝術的重要推手。從她對藝術的獨特詮釋、在聖史蒂芬next畫廊的貢獻，再到為奧地利電影博物館創作的品牌視覺，歌爾蒂的影響力遍布當時藝術界的各個角落。

Musical Anomalies: Stomaching Bish Bosch

Bish Bosch is the 2012 album by Scott Walker, who died at the age 76 in 2019, and was 69 at the time of its release. Bish Bosch is not a…

Scott Walker: From Pop Pap or (Pap of Pop) to Beating The Avant-garde at Their Own Game

A Pop Star That Turned True Avant-garde

Publication News!

Thanks to my husband, I discovered Scott Walker (the musician, not the governor) last year. His solo stuff is jaw-droppingly dark, so…

The making of an Avante-Garde

Surprisingly it took me a bit longer to write this piece than the first. Two stories about me but from very different perspectives. The…