Kentner Anderson News

Simple Composition, performed by brilliant guitarsts Daniel Conant & Kyle Miller, will be released on New Focus with works by Ben Boretz, Kentner Anderson, Kyle Miller -- three composers, each about 30 years apart in age.

I'm pivoting away from meine Gezupfteweltanschauung.

10 or 15 years ago, Robert Pollock, Director of Ebb & Flow Arts, of Maui, together with Shinhee Park, of Veritas Musicae, of Seoul, got me involved in a project to compose for VM's extraordinary musicians in Seoul, performing at Ilshin Hall. No guitars.

I contributed a clarinet trio, a piano trio, and a quartet for cl, vln, and other works. They began modestly and developed for many, many years, making great leaps forward. I'm now working on getting the revised versions performed.

I am working on a glossary of compositional terms to keep some indispensable music compositional principles alive, after noticing that with all the great new things that music is doing, some other powerful things are forgotten. The glossary also touches upon the aftermath of the Rockwell Coup, which, I argue, blurs what was once a hard boundary at 1918, gradually dissolving modernist taboos against crossing that line and connecting with Brahms the progressive. Instead of standing where Boulez stood, critical of Schoenberg and enforcing "Webern or nothing!", I stand where Schoenberg stood, inspired by Brahms the progressive. I stand there without the bridge-burning that Schoenberg needed to do for so many reasons.

Through various collaborations with the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, I'm trying to cultivate a healthy diversity of new music in Greenwich Village, Paris, Berlin, Seoul, Salzburg, and Passau.

The Village Trip
Berlin Academy of American Music (BAAM)
Summer Music Aldersbach
Center for the Liberation of Sound and Image (CLSI)
Veritas Musicae
Ekmelic Society of Salzburg

More about these new works on the BLOG.

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