Augustus Arnone -- Journal

Live Merkin Hall, 2008.

Performed Live at a Collide-O-Scope Music Concert, 4.13.14 at the Greenwich House, New York City. Augustus Arnone, piano, Patricia Spencer,flute, Marianne Gythfeldt, bass clarinet.

The first piece of Milton Babbitt’s I ever played was “Tutte Le Corde.” I did this in 2007, the year after I finished my doctorate and left Cornell, as part of a 3 concert solo recital series at Merkin Concert … Continue reading →

[Excerpt from an article forthcoming in Issue 15 of Open Space Magazine] The Disembodied Spirit: The History Of Photography As A Study In Myth. It is evident by now that the main thrust of this article is to begin … Continue reading →

[Excerpt from article on Michael Finnissy’s “A History Of Photography In Sound,” forthcoming in Issue 15 of Open Space Magazine] The Ear Is Not A Camera: The Divide Between Visual And Acoustic Perceptual Habits In Finnissy’s The History Of Photography … Continue reading →

Here’s a live recording from a recent Collide-O-Scope Music Concert in Red Bank, NJ. This is Michael Finnissy’s “North American Spirituals,” which is the third movement from his massive eleven movement solo piano cycle “The History Of Photography In Sound.” … Continue reading →

I’m very excited to have another chance to perform some improvisation with Edmund Campion’s Natural Selection MIDI processing environment. It was April of 2010, at the Collide-O-Scope Music debut concert, that I first got a chance to perform this. The … Continue reading →

Here’s a recording of myself playing a segment from Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Spiral, for soloist (on any instrument or combination of instruments) and shortwave receiver. This is a live performance that took place on February 24, 2012 at the Issue Project … Continue reading →

Here’s a recording I did in my studio of Beethoven’s Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme in E Flat Major, Op. 35, nicknamed the “Eroica Variations.” This is a piece I struggled mightily with when I first learned it. … Continue reading →