Alexandra Gardner | Building Noises

Well that’s just not my thing. I’m a serious composer.
This was a colleague’s comment following a performance by Kronos Quartet of Terry Riley’s The Cusp of Magic. Although I haven’t heard much of Riley’s music in recent years, this is definitely my favorite piece so far. So many elements that could go terribly wrong in [...]

This is a picture of the brand-spanking new electronic interface for my piece New Skin, redesigned by the amazing and talented Scott Smallwood. The software program is called Max/MSP, a very useful graphical programming environment geared towards music and audio. Although I use it pretty frequently for my compositions requiring a live electronic performance element, [...]

If the Seattle Icebreaker Fest hadn’t gone so well, I might have been more put off by the surreal morning of departure, which included Bill and I driving madly around the airport on a quest for the unmarked car rental place, and then my plane being several hours delayed because the “glue had to dry” [...]