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It knows well, but cannot avoid, the unhappy reality—that to fix any solitary interpretation of a polyvalent object is always to abandon that object’s encrusted dimensionality: to flatline by overdetermination the joyful generativity that vitalizes any desire to read critically. Her work reaches for culture’s four-dimensional objects, well aware that to grasp them, one must choose a dimension and fundamentally lose contact with the object’s true nature. Music animates both the anxiety and thrill of that decision’s risk to loss.. https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/befores-and-afters-an-interview-with-clara-iannotta monthly 0.5 2024-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/e918884f-4f99-4d7b-9a28-1dec3e5f04bf/2024_c_JuliaWesely.jpg VAN Magazine - Befores and Afters: An Interview with Clara Iannotta “She does not want us to feel the jolt itself—the zoom-out from the graveside garden to eternity—but rather to sense, in a pre-linguistic stratum, the burnished imprint of memory that presses on the retina after such a geologic shift has taken place: eternity stitched through with a soft memory of the now-vanished grave.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/heads-will-roll-horror-form-and-the-music-of-kelley-sheehan monthly 0.5 2024-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/ca528b05-6074-4206-a28e-eb69c6115899/transfer_overhead.png VAN Magazine - Heads Will Roll: Horror, Form, and the Music of Kelley Sheehan We do not speak of horror. (Well, not in public, anyway.) https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/anti-thematic-thomas-fichter-and-the-timespans-festival-2 monthly 0.5 2024-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/5a85dedc-89c8-4120-8c3e-4718a53713b3/download.png VAN Magazine - Anti-Thematic: Thomas Fichter and the Time:Spans Festival “At a time when mass culture would package every slice of media it can get its dirty hands on, Time:Spans is our annual reminder that to be rigorously anti-thematic—and uncategorizable, omnivorous, and promiscuous besides—is a more provocative affirmation of experimental music’s communal political thrust than any kitschy brand or phrase could ever be. “ https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/epistle-possessive-the-music-of-michael-finnissy monthly 0.5 2024-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/4ed1b5cb-8650-4d37-9254-084e1ddb7d58/Screenshot+2024-07-18+at+14.58.29.png VAN Magazine - epistle; possessive: the music of Michael Finnissy “Last week they asked me to write a portrait of you. I told them I didn’t think I knew how. The real and the unreal are too fuzzy with you, too elided now to ever divvy up again by so blunt a criterion as “truth.” “The autobiographical element should be understood as me-as-my-music or me-as-composer,” you whisper, evasive, grinning, impish.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/the-problem-with-peter monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/8d5cbd4b-15d9-424e-8591-b21afa8230dd/gelb1.jpg VAN Magazine - The Problem with Peter “Since the start of his tenure in 2006, Gelb’s aesthetic censorship has gatekept major developments in opera from the New York landscape, leaving the city trailing far behind the rest of the world. New American opera doesn’t exist in a vacuum, but U.S. audiences are routinely asked to assess their national scene without any knowledge of the global context in which to situate it. If Paris in 2023 can sell out John Adams to an under-30 audience, the Met should have no problem doing the same with Neuwirth or Kurtág—they’ve just never bothered to try.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/sounds-gay-im-in-reflections-on-queer-musicology monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/00455eb3-6608-4f70-89f3-3b9a6668e4bc/MV5BNzg5YzZkMmUtNDQxMS00YzhiLWEwMjQtMzMyMzY0MGY5N2ZlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MDI5NjE%40._V1_.jpeg VAN Magazine - Sounds Gay, I'm In: Reflections on Queer Musicology “For better or for worse, the ramifications of [Queering the Pitch]—and all the implicit assumptions that underpinned it—are still being felt today. Without abandoning the scope of its methodological thrust or the very real hope that initially set it into motion, we are nevertheless in need of a reparative without which queer musicology stands little chance of any meaningful survival.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/a-chance-to-mourn-cages-europeras-in-detroit monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/1e71b34a-1739-4360-bcfc-e754a5c549e1/11_Europeras-3-4_Detroit-Opera_Austin-Richey.jpg VAN Magazine - A Chance to Mourn: Cage's Europeras in Detroit “ There can be no history of operatic modernity that is not also a memorial, no production of new opera that does not account for generic death, no opera written that does not, in its own way, undertake the work of mourning. Which is not an especially sexy marketing campaign. Heartbeats and vigor and accumulating freshness are far, far easier to sell. But at what cost?” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/29313-or-where-the-archive-ends monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/b8d135e6-222c-47c3-a31e-448bf2f22909/Screenshot+2024-06-19+at+13.01.32.png VAN Magazine - 29,313; or, where the archive ends “Before we go any further, you should know that what I’m about to do is an evasive maneuver of critical privilege: I’m going to temporarily bracket the real world and the ongoing suffering in it. Which means bracketing the death of 29,313 Palestinians and counting, the senseless expenditure of civilian life by terrorist regimes, the decades-long complexities of international warfare, and the ongoing censorship of pro-Palestinian voices across Germany. As a result, I will not be making any direct claims for or against the political empathy the staging pressures onto its audience. That would be the obvious riposte. It would be easy to dismiss the production on ideology alone, to criticize the audacity of a blatantly pro-Israeli staging, but this would also be submitting to its logic. Wiegand hopes that we will get caught up in social moralizing and forget to notice the opera, which is all the while saying something very different. So instead, I want to briefly take the production at its word.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/the-things-we-form-sarah-saviet monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/70e0fa51-79b3-4dd8-9a23-a92643541a60/Sarah-Saviet-%C2%A9-Camille-Blake.jpg VAN Magazine - The Things We Form: Sarah Saviet “The bookcase is a cascading staircase of open boxes. It begins with a lone solitary cube, the upper left corner, and falls, accumulating along the diagonal until it reaches a row of four. All told, the structure partitions into ten self-contained units. The bookcase consumes the living room wall.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/a-lovers-discourse-evan-johnson-and-eugenie-brinkema monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/741e2a2a-415b-4179-b744-e184fa07d9ce/20230816_110358.jpg VAN Magazine - A Lovers' Discourse: Evan Johnson and Eugenie Brinkema “Here I am, seated on the outskirts of a lovers’ discourse, desperate to attend to the inscriptions each has left upon the other. In smile-lines and the way hands brush beneath the table as though I wouldn’t notice, in the wordless jut of a chin, eyes flashed in recognition, soft exhale, I see the pathways of exchange unfurl in rivers across these bodies which are for one another in life as much as in work. And yet, still, I must inevitably face the blunt and radiant truth, that there are things which pass between these two that will forever remain illegible to me, things which were never mine to know.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/the-threshold-of-change-the-ethical-art-of-juliet-fraser monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/786a4cc8-4887-4847-bf1d-8c22a3f3867d/image-asset.jpg VAN Magazine - The Threshold of Change: The Ethical Art of Juliet Fraser “Fraser was an oboist before falling sidelong and without training into singing. As a result, her sound makes no pretensions at the veneer of a classical technique. It bathes instead in a tumble-dried lightness whose nearest cousin is laughter, rounding off the corners of even the most treacherous phrase with a gentle, loving grain. It sits deep within the body, pure and unvarnished, sympathetic and grounded.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/spit-on-me-postcards-to-steve-takasugi monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/5f6bd9dc-dd92-4e12-bbb2-0556e79ab9fb/Takasugi-1.jpg VAN Magazine - Spit On Me: Postcards to Steve Takasugi “You enter this house of mirrors, and I love this idea because that’s when the confusion takes place: When you don’t know who’s actually eliciting the sounds. Sometimes they’re lip-syncing, sometimes they’re not, it gets to a point when you’re in such a house of mirrors that even the musicians—even me—don’t know exactly what’s going on.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/hopelessly-devoted-beyond-religion-in-saint-franois-dassise monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/67c769ac-bf74-4e3d-af07-1d4c061b824f/DP814894.jpg VAN Magazine - Hopelessly Devoted: Beyond Religion in "Saint François d'Assise" “‘Saint François d’Assise’ is a technical and logistical monstrosity to produce—even more so for a single night. This particular production has been in the works for almost five years. Why should a young and overwhelmingly queer demographic play the faithful stewards for this monument to Catholicism? Which is to say: How can I possibly love this thing?“ https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/how-to-measure-love-kaija-saariaho-and-the-messiaen-myth monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/40f8cc00-2397-4af7-9a20-85d2983fb7f6/Kaija-studio-BernarddeClairvaux2.jpg VAN Magazine - How To Measure Love: Kaija Saariaho and the Messiaen Myth “It has been three months since the death of Kaija Saariaho. The riverbend is not far off. Talks of legacy and impact have already begun—as they should, because few artists have left so indelible a footprint on a field as the Finnish composer on new music. But floating in the water is a lingering piece of jetsam that I want to fish out and examine under closer light. It has slipped by in the torrents: I’m worried about what it means.” https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/tag/opera monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/tag/Obituary monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/tag/VAN+Magazine monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/tag/Review monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/tag/Profile monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/tag/Interview monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/van-magazine/tag/Essay monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/preposterous-reading daily 0.75 2025-07-22 https://tybouque.com/preposterous-reading/how-i-love-you-i-enno-poppe-and-marcel-beyer monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/4c64d4a1-0aa4-4ce5-b5f0-97d0503225b9/incredulity.png Preposterous Reading - How I Love You (i): Enno Poppe and Marcel Beyer “There is no writing on Enno Poppe. No writing, neither the doing nor the done of it. It has taken me six long months to reconcile that fact, but with every passing failure I am forced to confront the reality that his very good music that I like a lot is just not productively recuperable in language. It, in the very phenomena that are most pleasurable about it, prohibits a writing that would seek to think alongside it. I have never before known a music to do this.” https://tybouque.com/preposterous-reading/title-matter-clara-iannotta-and-dorothy-molloy monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/656b2b1f-0afb-439a-a429-a10fd31e535e/a-d-Four-stages-of-the-ecdysis-of-Tegenaria-atrica-a-The-dorsal-cuticle-of-the-prosoma.jpg Preposterous Reading - (title matter): Clara Iannotta and Dorothy Molloy “The parentheses would seem to suggest that a replacement is only inevitable. They weaken, to an improbable degree, what was merely a flimsy referent to begin with. As such, (title matter) constitutes no titling but merely the absence of one, a temporary stand-in for some as-yet-unseen but soon-to-be-found concrete name which will arise to fill the vacuum. It is too unstable. A title must come.” https://tybouque.com/preposterous-reading/as-in-rebecca-saunders-and-ed-atkins monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/5460781b-0b41-476f-884b-032dd4ec5510/download-2.jpg Preposterous Reading - AS IN: Rebecca Saunders and Ed Atkins “This is not warm music, or if it is, the warmth is already fleeing, seeping out. (Nothing can ever prepare you for how quickly heat leaves a body when it dies.) By its insistent recourse to adpositions—the operational silence of the as-in—Saunders’ world is in a constant state of becoming-cadaverous.” https://tybouque.com/preposterous-reading/tender-contingencies-timothy-mccormack-and-gerhard-richter monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/cee398aa-05cd-499e-83c0-4b5d200ef120/default.jpg Preposterous Reading - tender contingencies: Timothy McCormack and Gerhard Richter “I’ve found that asking [Tim] for stories is usually a good place to start because Tim is always ready with a story. And usually three or four before that because he likes you to know the context for the first. Ultimately there are detours, shortcuts, side paths, tangents, secret doors, byways. He talks like his music, always in discovery. Also like his music, it takes patience: you have to get there.” https://tybouque.com/preposterous-reading/swarming-liza-lim-and-beth-yahp monthly 0.5 2024-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/0ed78998-9c3b-4971-9b74-a1b1e3eb4bd8/YLJ+River.png Preposterous Reading - swarming: Liza Lim and Beth Yahp “Notice how Hers becomes Mine becomes Ours, a becoming-one with much-ness.” https://tybouque.com/preposterous-reading/tag/preposterous+reading monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/program-notes daily 0.75 2025-01-23 https://tybouque.com/program-notes/university-of-chicago-orchestra monthly 0.5 2025-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/859d4ca5-fd1b-48a8-a8ea-ba3b8344d380/62bb3beb580d95001f650b96.jpg Program and Liner Notes - University of Chicago Orchestra “It is a problem from the first word. Much has been written about the labor of that “prélude,” about just what it thinks it’s doing. The Mallarmé poem from which the atmosphere of Debussy’s most famous tone poem is sourced bears only the title L’après- midi d’un faune—that Prélude à is adjunct, belonging to the music alone.” https://tybouque.com/program-notes/loadbang-a-garden-adorned monthly 0.5 2024-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/107479a0-1ccf-4318-83c0-e06154e2eb14/download-1.jpg Program and Liner Notes - Loadbang: A Garden Adorned In March of 2025, Loadbang will release their newest record (featuring yours truly). What follows is an essay of mine, written for the liner notes. https://tybouque.com/program-notes/great-lakes-chamber-music-festival-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/ca9df787-40d1-4c1b-bb84-2bcf21033682/Screenshot+2024-06-19+at+11.53.10.png Program and Liner Notes - Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival: 2024 “We have before us three staples of canonic genre: the sonata, the quartet, and the quintet. But reality is never that simple. One is an archaism, one a subversion, and the other an act of invention, though they all parade as self-evident. Which is to say that ‘genre’ is never a given; it's what you do with your medium that counts.” https://tybouque.com/program-notes/bryn-harrison-three-descriptions-of-place-and-movement monthly 0.5 2024-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/8ce4b6c6-a121-4ee4-9445-e10887d32351/Screenshot+2024-06-19+at+19.49.08.png Program and Liner Notes - Bryn Harrison: Three Descriptions of Place and Movement The following text was written for the liners of Bryn Harrison’s 2022 “Three Descriptions of Place and Movement,” released by HCR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/7fca1f58-32ba-49b2-8a0c-b2ebd00922e1/168609.jpg Program and Liner Notes - Bryn Harrison: Three Descriptions of Place and Movement - Make it stand out Bridget Riley, Blaze 1 https://tybouque.com/program-notes/the-operas-of-liza-lim monthly 0.5 2024-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/f779b57a-4a6f-47de-883a-d84447d17d1a/Screenshot+2024-06-19+at+20.03.33.png Program and Liner Notes - Singing in Tongues: The Operas of Liza Lim Liner notes for a three-disc portrait of Liza Lim’s operas, released on HCR in 2021. https://tybouque.com/tempo daily 0.75 2025-04-04 https://tybouque.com/tempo/lucia-dugoszewski-abyss-and-caress monthly 0.5 2024-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/fb50a136-ade6-43b7-ad9c-2dc7772cfe3e/31tDGhAnPSL._UXNaN_FMjpg_QL85_.jpg TEMPO - Lucia Długoszewski: Abyss and Caress “But if you ask me, this one belongs to Detroit. For all her elsewhere similarities – and there are many: frequent comparison is made to Partch, with her arsenal of custom-built percussion; Monk, for their shared work on dance; Cage, for her extreme experiments in prepared piano; and her teacher Varèse, for her delimited structuralism – Lucia Dlugoszewski’s first 25 years in Hamtramck, the Polish enclave, reveal more of her practice than any aesthetic resemblance ever could. It is in my city’s habit to bear forth these fringe cosmologists, strange insurgents who wield erudition with a confounding and idiosyncratic sensuality. Dlugoszewski shares – with Alice Coltrane, Robert Ashley, Grace Lee Boggs and adrienne maree brown – this Motor City sensibility, bound not by their thinking about Detroit so much as how the city thinks through them.” https://tybouque.com/tempo/what-lies-beneath-evan-johnsons-indolentiae-ars monthly 0.5 2024-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/0724af6a-0dc0-4f89-b717-918e0977609b/1200x1200bf-60.jpg TEMPO - what lies beneath: Evan Johnson's Indolentiae Ars “This is a record. This is not a record” https://tybouque.com/tempo/category/new+music monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/tempo/category/review monthly 0.5 https://tybouque.com/miscellany daily 0.75 2024-07-18 https://tybouque.com/miscellany/opera-news-janeks-cunning-little-vixen-in-detroit monthly 0.5 2024-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c9017e2fb22a53593eea0f6/2df0f7d0-6b72-4adb-907e-f23f74d77615/download-1.jpg miscellany - Opera News: Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen in Detroit In March, Opera News asked me to review Yuval Sharon’s production of Cunning Little Vixen in Detroit. The printed version underwent severe and unapproved edits that jettisoned much of my original sentiment. 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