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Ty Bouque
writer | vocalist

Since 2023, VAN—with their brilliant editor Jeff Brown—has become a regular outpost for my writing, a selection of which is linked below.

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On Shame: or, Kate Soper's Hermaneutics
On Shame: or, Kate Soper's Hermaneutics

“Two things about shame. First: it is a feeling all about the face. Second: it is much more than a feeling.”

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Ty BouqueJanuary 22, 2025
Befores and Afters: An Interview with Clara Iannotta
Befores and Afters: An Interview with Clara Iannotta

"Or does revelation’s laying bare—as its etymology (from the Latin revelare) indicates—demand dehiscence, a cloven second body capable of turning to assess the dumb and naked first? In other words: who is laid bare and who does the laying bare?"

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Ty BouqueSeptember 20, 2024
Heads Will Roll: Horror, Form, and the Music of Kelley Sheehan
Heads Will Roll: Horror, Form, and the Music of Kelley Sheehan

It has to do with heads. (Not literally, of course, but formally.)

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Ty BouqueSeptember 20, 2024
Anti-Thematic: Thomas Fichter and the Time:Spans Festival
Anti-Thematic: Thomas Fichter and the Time:Spans Festival

"Time:Spans is good old-fashioned concertizing that way, delivering on the elusive promise of “something for everyone” without pandering to the universal accessibility that has watered down so much of the contemporary American scene."

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Ty BouqueSeptember 20, 2024
epistle; possessive: the music of Michael Finnissy
epistle; possessive: the music of Michael Finnissy

I love loving Guibert through and alongside him, just like I love Gershwin through your eyes (all perforated and scribbles too).

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Ty BouqueJuly 18, 2024
The Problem with Peter
The Problem with Peter

It’s time Peter Gelb stopped telling American audiences what the “right contemporary opera” is and let them decide for themselves.

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Essay, opera
Sounds Gay, I'm In: Reflections on Queer Musicology
Sounds Gay, I'm In: Reflections on Queer Musicology

This is how we got into queer musicology, and this is how we get out.

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Essay
A Chance to Mourn: Cage's Europeras in Detroit
A Chance to Mourn: Cage's Europeras in Detroit

If there were more productions of Cage and operas like it—presented not as token but as pride and honest beauty—we could maybe at last get back to actual aesthetic discourse without having to settle (beggars/choosers) for cheapened copies of the objects of our love.

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Review, Essay, opera
29,313; or, where the archive ends
29,313; or, where the archive ends

Now, take the brackets off. Let 29,313 dead Palestinians rush in. The Staatstheater Darmstadt only seats 956. What are we to do with the other 28,357?

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Essay, Review, opera
The Things We Form: Sarah Saviet
The Things We Form: Sarah Saviet

—[Albers’ three totems, each in their own turn; one at a time, carefully]

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Interview, Profile
A Lovers' Discourse: Evan Johnson and Eugenie Brinkema
A Lovers' Discourse: Evan Johnson and Eugenie Brinkema

I am not not talking about the music of Evan Johnson.

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Interview, Profile
The Threshold of Change: The Ethical Art of Juliet Fraser
The Threshold of Change: The Ethical Art of Juliet Fraser

“I’d love to hear you sing… I don’t know… Bellini?”—”Oh no you wouldn’t. I know what that sounds like. No you wouldn’t.”

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Interview, Profile
Spit On Me: Postcards to Steve Takasugi
Spit On Me: Postcards to Steve Takasugi

”You can’t swallow your spit.”

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Interview, Profile
Hopelessly Devoted: Beyond Religion in "Saint François d'Assise"
Hopelessly Devoted: Beyond Religion in "Saint François d'Assise"

In Bucharest, I thought of Paul, and how strange and terrible and beautiful it is to love another’s love.

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Essay, Review, opera
How To Measure Love: Kaija Saariaho and the Messiaen Myth
How To Measure Love: Kaija Saariaho and the Messiaen Myth

New music mourns with a strange and violent passion.

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Ty BouqueJune 19, 2024VAN Magazine, Essay, Obituary

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