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• November 3, 2020

  Current Listening

  Maja S. K. Ratkje: Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020 This year’s TUSK festival took place online due to corona. The events of the festival have been streaming twice, once in the evening and secondly in the following morning. There was one performance I listened twice and even tried to record the second stream,…
• October 4, 2020

  Bruno Maderna (1920-73): Quadrivium (1969)

  “Das Schlimmste auf der Welt ist Konsequenz”. “Consistency is the worst thing in the world”. Bruno Maderna Maderna’s statement about the harmfulness of consistency might be understood as a definition of human nature and as such a manifesto of humanity. We are men and women because we used to act inconsistently. Since I am a…