Publications & Papers


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last update: 24 Feb 2013

Books edited:

- 2000: with Antje Erben and Arne Stollberg: Grenzgänge - Übergänge: Musikwissenschaft im Dialog. Bericht über das 13. Internationale Symposium des DVSM [Crossing the Borders: Musicology in Dialogue. Conference Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium of the Association of German Musicology Students] (Hamburg: von Bockel Verlag), 274pp [ISBN 3-932696-39-5].

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Editorships:

- July 2011 - March 2012: Book Reviews Editor (Europe) for Fontes Artis Musicae.

- 1998-2007: Founding co-editor of Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft - Online-Publikation  [Frankfurt Journal of Musicology - Online Publication]; http://www.fzmw.de; 2002-2007 as review editor for English publications [EISSN 1438-857X].

- 2000-2001: co-editor of Studienführer Musikwissenschaft [Study Guide for Musicology]; DVSM [Dachverband der Studierenden der Musikwissenschaft; Association of German Musicology Students].

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Articles / chapters in edited books:

- 2013: 'Cornelius Cardew's Music for Moving Images: Some Preliminary Observations,', in The Electronic British Library Journal, 2013, Article 4, 1-16 [ISSN 1478-0259].
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- 2010: 'Prose Collection: The Performer and Listener as Co-Creator', in Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff, ed. Stephen Chase, & Philip Thomas, Aldershot: Ashgate, 193-210 [ISBN 9780754666806]

- 2007: 'Earle Brown's "Creative Ambiguity" and Ideas of Co-creatorship in Selected Works', in Contemporary Music Review, 26/3, 377-394 [ISSN: 0749-4467 / EISSN: 1477-2256.]

- 2004: with Stephen Chase, 'Ordinary Matters: Christian Wolff on his Recent Music', in Tempo 58/229 (July), 19-27 [ISSN: 0040-2982 / EISSN: 1478-2286].

- 1998: '"...a music made by everyone". Eine analytische Annäherung an John Cages Number Pieces', in MusikTexte 76/77 (December), 41-47 [ISSN 0178-8884].

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Review articles:

- 2002: review article of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (ed.), MYTHos Cage, Hofheim: Wolke Verlag 1999, in Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft - Online-Publikation 5, 55-69 [EISSN 1438-857X].
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Reviews:

- 2012: Review of Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits. By Benjamin Piekut. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association (ISSN 0027-4380), vol. 68, no. 3 (March), 603-605.

- 2011: Review of Roger Sessions: A Biography. By Andrea Olmstead. New York: Routledge, 2008. Fontes Artis Musicae, vol. 58, issue 3 (July-September), 343-345.

- 2011: Review of The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music. Ed. by James Saunders. Music & Letters (2011), vol. 92, issue 3 (August), 511-513.

- 2011: Review of Howard skempton: bolt from the blue. Daniel Becker (pno), exaudi c. James Weeks. mode 226. in Tempo (2011), vol. 65, issue 257 (July), 101.

- 2011: Review of Karel Goeyvaerts: Selbstlose Musik, Texte, Briefe, Gespräche, edited by Mark Delaere. Edition MusikTexte. in Tempo (2011), 65, issue 257 (July), 90-92.

- 2009: Review of Gregor Herzfeld, Zeit als Prozess und Epiphanie in der experimentellen amerikanischen Musik: Charles Ives bis La Monte Young (= Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Beiheft 60), 365 Seiten, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 9783515090339 in Musiktheorie 24/4 (2009), 375-379 [ISSN 0177-4182].

- 2008: Review of Frederic Rzewski, Nonsequiturs: Writings and Lectures on Improvisation, Composition, and Interpretation, edited by Gisela Gronemeyer and Reinhard Oehlschlägel, Cologne: Edition MusikTexte, in Tempo, 62/246 (October), 75-77 [ISSN: 0040-2982 / EISSN: 1478-2286].

- 2008: Review of Thomas Ulrich, Neue Musik aus religiösem Geist: Theologisches Denken im Werk von Karlheinz Stockhausen und John Cage, Saabrücken: Pfau Verlag, 2006, in Tempo, 62/243 (January), 72-74 [ISSN: 0040-2982 / EISSN: 1478-2286].

- 2007: Review of Felix Meyer & Heidy Zimmermann (eds.), Edgar Varese: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary, Woodbridge: Boydell 2006, in: Brio, 44/2 (Autumn/Winter), 66-68 [ISSN: 0007-0173].

- 2007: Review of Chris Villars (ed.), Morton Feldman says: selected interviews and lectures 1964-1987, London: Hyphen Press, 2006, in Music & Letters, 88/4 (November), 706-708 [ISSN 0027-4224 / EISSN 1477-4631].

- 2007: Review of Peter Dickinson (ed.), CageTalk. Dialogues with and about John Cage Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer 2006, in Tempo, 61/242 (October), 72-73 [ISSN: 0040-2982 / EISSN: 1478-2286].

- 2005: Review of Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner (eds.), Audio Culture. Readings in Modern Music, New York/London: Continuum Publishing 2004, Tempo 59/234 (October), 52-53 [ISSN: 0040-2982 / EISSN: 1478-2286].

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Reports:

- 2005: report on John Cage Study Day in Manchester (Spring 2005):
'Kritische Interpretation? Zum Cage-Studientag in Manchester', in MusikTexte 106 (August), 78-79 [ISSN 0178-8884].

- 2004: 'John Cage Uncaged. Das Januar-Komponisten-Wochenende der BBC in London', in MusikTexte 100 (February), 115-116 [ISSN 0178-8884].

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Other forms of output:

- 2008: Review of concert series of music by Christian Wolff: 'Überangebot und keine Nachfrage? Christian Wolffs Klaviermusik in London' in MusikTexte 117 (May), 90-91 [ISSN 0178-8884].

- 2006: entries on 'Earle Brown', 'Frederic Rzewski' and 'Christian Wolff', in Lexikon des Klaviers, ed. Christoph Kammertöns and Siegfried Mauser (Laaber: Laaber Verlag) [(Instrumenten-Lexika 2) ISBN 978-3-89007-543-3].

- 2002: 'Im Schatten von Cage und Feldman. Zum Gedenken an Earle Brown', in MusikTexte 94 (August), 77-78 [ISSN 0178-8884].

- 2002: 'In the Shadow of Cage and Feldman. In Memory of Earle Brown', in The Bulletin of the Society for American Music (SAM), 28/3 (Fall), 39.  [PDF-format]; whole bulletin (235kb) [ISSN 0196-7967].

- 2001: Editorial introduction for 'Interviews mit / with John Cage - Steve Sweeney-Turner im Gespräch mit John Cage', in Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft - Online-Publikation 4, Texte & Materialien 2, 1-5 [EISSN 1438-857X].

- 1998: with Irene Genzmer, liner notes for 'Music for Bassoon & Piano', Vol.2 (Dabringhaus und Grimm), MDG 603 0831-2.

- 1996-1999: Concert reviews for local newspapers (Frankfurter Rundschau (Kulturspiegel Wetterau), Frankfurter Neue Presse (Feuilleton), Wetterauer Zeitung) in German.

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Papers (mostly unpublished):

20/10/2005

Be Prepared (or not)! - Discussing Performance Issues in John Cage's Music,
Seminar in Musicology, University College Dublin, School of Music

26/08/2005

Christian Wolff, the performer as co-creator and the redefinition of relationships between composer and performer,
at Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-century Music, University of Sussex (Brighton, UK), 25-28 August 2005.

16/04/2005

Cage, the Performer and the Idea of Co-Creatorship,
at 'John Cage, Thinker-Performer' (study day), RNCM, Manchester.

18/09/2004

John Cages und Christian Wolffs Verbalpartituren als Ansatz zu kollaborativen Prozessen,
at the XIII. Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (Musik und kulturelle Identität) [13th International Conference of the German Society for Music Research (Music and Cultural Identity)], Weimar (16 September - 21 September 2004).

28/06/2003

Performance practice in the indeterminate music of Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff.
at the Third Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, University of Nottingham, UK (26 June - 29 June 2003)

29/11/2002

Ambiguity and Creativity in the Music of Earle Brown and John Cage.
at the 38th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association, University of Glasgow, UK (28 November - 1 December 2002)

19/03/2002

Freedom and failure: performing the music of John Cage.
upgrade presentation (M.Phil/Ph.D.),
at the Music Department, University of Southampton

08/03/2002

Performing Cage: a critical interpretation of scores and performances.
at the 28th Annual Conference of the SAM Lexington, Kentucky (6-11 March 2002)

18/12/2001

Performing Cage? Critically interpreting scores and performances.
at the 35th RMA Research Students' Conference, Royal College of Music, London, UK (17-20 December 2001)

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