![]() ![]() The graphic score and minimal performance instructions offered in Buddha, leave room for multiple differing interpretations:īuddha v.1 compiles the available notes on the staves into their own respective harmonies and functions as a tape. In this album, evolving soundscapes of processed classical and electric guitars find a home in four different arrangements of Eastman’s “Buddha” and his seminal work, “Gay Guerilla”. There’s an attempt to make every new section of music contain some information of the previous section, while sometimes removing material at a gradual and logical rate. He described the process as an undulating and repetitive style that is mainly additive. Julius Eastman composed in a style he labeled as “organic music”. Produced by audio/visual specialist Amelya N.S.H., the album’s collaboration explores her work with intersectionality and the formation of spaces that allow marginalized artists and their art to thrive. Canadian Guitarist and Composer Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo is an artist driven by collaboration and innovation who aims to redefine the constraints of 21st century guitar. It does not store any personal data.“Eastman” is a re-imagination of the guitar’s place in classical music through the lens of Julius Eastman’s groundbreaking musical approaches. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Gay Guerrilla: A Minimalist Choralphantasie - Luciano ChessaĪppendix: Julius Eastman Compositions - Mary Jane Leach "The Piece Does Not Exist without Julius": Still Staying on Stay On It - Matthew Mendez ![]() Julius Eastman Singing - John Patrick ThomasĪn Accidental Musicologist Passes the Torch - Mary Jane LeachĪ Flexible Musical Identity: Julius Eastman in New York City, 1976-90 - Ryan DohoneyĮvil Nigger: A Piece for Multiple Instruments of the Same Type by Julius Eastman (1979), with Performance Instructions by Joseph Kubera - David BordenĪ Postminimalist Analysis of Julius Eastman's Crazy Nigger - Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek Julius Eastman and the Conception of "Organic Music" - Kyle Gann Julius Eastman, A Biography - Renee Levine Packer Introduction: Julius Eastman and His Music - Renee Levine Packer Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union. Renée Levine Packer's book This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music inBuffalo received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist thatis compelling reading for the general reader as well as scholars interested in twentieth-century American music, American studies, gay rights, and civil rights. In addition to analyses of Eastman's music, the essays in Gay Guerrilla provide background on his remarkable life history and the era's social landscape. These episodes are examples of Eastman's persistence in pushing the limits of the acceptable in the highly charged arenas of sexual and civil rights. Eastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others, assault us with his obsessions.Įastman tested limits with his political aggressiveness, as reflected in legendary scandals like his June 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, which featured homoerotic interjections, and the uproar over his titles at Northwestern University. ![]() His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.Ĭomposer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. ![]()
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