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New Sutekh album “On Bach” coming 9/20 on Creaked Records
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags:Bach·Bach to the Moon·Creaked·On Bach·Seth Horvitz·sutekh·Théâtre du Châtelet
Coppe’ USB pill coming 9/22 in Japan, featuring live video by Sutekh, megamix by Atom™, and lots more…
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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Sutekh interview in CD Journal, Japan
August 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
http://www.cdjournal.com/main/cdjpush/sutekh/1000000450 gotta love Google’s translator: “Yes, very. Eat, make noise. Then I do not think the extra things to buy. However I only have the studio equipment is also needed. It’s simple every day (laughs)”
Tags:cd journal·interview·Japan·sutekh
The Furrows
May 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
“The splendour of furrowed fields is this: that like all brave things they are made straight, and therefore they bend…Bows are beautiful when they bend only because they try to remain rigid…But the same is true of every tough curve of the tree-trunk…there is hardly any such thing in Nature as a mere droop of [...]
Tags:Bent·Furrows·GK Chesterton·Nature·Poetics of Music·Stravinsky
Friday, April 23rd, 8:00-8:46PM: Seth Horvitz presents: Studies for Automatic Piano @ Mills College, Littlefield Concert Hall
April 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Inspired by simple iterative processes, elegant geometry, the idiosyncratic behaviour of machines, and the works of James Tenney, György Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow, and Charlemagne Palestine, the studies presented in this concert are the culmination of nearly two years work at Mills College. The pieces will be performed by the Yamaha DC7 Mark III Disklavier, a modern-day player [...]
Tags:Charlemagne Palestine·disklavier·ligeti·mechanical music·Mills College·nancarrow·piano·Seth Horvitz·sutekh·tenney·yamaha
Monday, March 29, 8pm: Seth Horvitz plays Charlemagne Palestine’s Strumming Music @ Mills College, Student Union Building
March 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This performance is free and open to the public. For those of you unfamiliar with Charlemagne Palestine’s work, here is an article/interview. Update 4/11/10: Download a recording of this concert HERE (320k mp3). The recording was made with four microphones: two AKG 414′s up close and two AKG 480′s at the rear of the room. No [...]
Tags:Charlemagne Palestine·Cognac·Drone·Ecstasy·free·free download·free mp3·free shit!·Mills College·Minimalism·piano·recording·Seth Horvitz·Strumming Music·sutekh·Teddy Bears
Art and Technology II
January 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
“There comes a moment where the technology gets closer and closer to the imagination and creativity of the writer and in the end, if you’re not careful, it overtakes, and suddenly, that serendipity which before was from your own sweat and blood… that serendipity comes by saying ‘if i press one of these 397 buttons [...]
Tags:alchemists of sound·art·BBC Radiophonic·David Cain·presets·technology
MANIFESTO 2010
January 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
GOOD ART IS NEVER ABOUT TECHNOLOGY. I.E. THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE ONLY IF THE MESSAGE TRANSCENDS THE MEDIUM. PUT ANOTHER WAY, ART SHOULD NEVER FOCUS ON THE DISPLAY OF TECHNOLOGY, WHICH ONLY SERVES TO TRANSFORM ART INTO MARKETING. INSTEAD, TECHNOLOGY MAY BE USED TO EXPRESS AN IDEA OR TO EXPLORE A DOMAIN OF EXISTENCE [...]
Tags:art·manifesto·technology
Pigeon Funk (Sutekh + Kit Clayton) Euro Tour Dates
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
NEW >>> Watch Pigeon Funk live in Paris on YouTube! 20 Nov : Valenciennes, France : Espace Pier Paolo Pasolini, Festival Next (Pigeon Funk w/ Pan Sonic, etc.) 22 Nov : Bydgoszcz, Poland : Plateaux Festival (Sutekh solo) 26 Nov : Paris, France : Cafe De Paris (Pigeon Funk w/ o.lamm + domotic) 27 Nov [...]
Tags:Kit Clayton·Pigeon Funk·Pigeon Funk live·Pigeon Funk tour·sutekh
Article on Sutekh in Seattle’s weekly
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
In anticipation of this Friday’s show in Seattle, Dave Segal wrote a very nice article in Seattle’s weekly paper, The Stranger. Have a look HERE.
Resonance FM this Friday/Sunday
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This Friday, September 11, from 3:30-4:00pm (London time), London’s Resonance FM will broadcast a 30 minute solo performance of mine which took place in the Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills College last week. The show will be rebroadcast on Sunday from 7-7:30pm (London time). For more info: http://resonancefm.com/ Here is a short description: Six separate [...]
Back to the Basics
August 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Just completed a one hour DJ mix for Marcus Maack’s excellent “Back to the Basics” show on 96.0FM Hamburg (now 17 years strong!). The mix will be broadcast twice this week, and an mp3 of the show will be posted here next week. Tracklisting is below. Three previous BTTB mixes are also available for download, [...]
Fear of Music
July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Recently read Wire columnist David Stubbs’ book “Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen”. Great topic. Unfortunately, not a great book. I found an incredibly detailed and thoughtful critique HERE which I would say provides more insight into the subject of the book than the book itself. Who is this mysterious [...]
Tags:David Stubbs·Fear of Music·Rothko·Rouge's Foam·Stockhausen
Music = Baseball?
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the transcript of Ken Burns’ interview with Branford Marsalis for his Jazz documentary: KB: Do you think the audience likes to be educated? I know Cecil Taylor has said, “I prepare for my next concerts. The audience has to prepare.” BM: That’s total self-indulgent bullshit as far as I’m concerned. I mean, you know, [...]
Michael Jackson’s Legacy: Reflections on a Musical Monarch
July 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Michael Jackson: The King of Pop. The title seems harmless enough. But is it? The King certainly accepted the crown with pride, naming not one, but both of his sons “Prince MIchael.” And his spending habits easily matched the decadence of the Shah (who spent a reported 100 million dollars on celebrations for the 2,500th [...]
Tags:Michael Jackson·monarchy
Stockhausen on the dancefloor
July 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
It’s a shame that many people seem to remember Stockhausen either for his comments about 9/11 or the entertaining, but horribly framed 1995 article in The Wire where Stocky was given some “electronica” tracks to listen to and comment on. For those of you who thought Aphex Twin had the last laugh with his predictably [...]
Solo piano podcast
June 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I am honored to announce that Symbiosis, a regular podcast hosted by overlap.org has invited me to produce a 40-minute music mix with no strings attached. So what did I choose? Yup, all solo piano selections. I have included profuse amounts of notes as well. Will someone throw rotten tomatoes at me for including Tchaikovsky, [...]
Vexations mp3
May 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
On February 8, 2009, I performed an abridged version of Erik Satie’s Vexations for solo piano at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The performance lasted for approximately five hours* without a break, forming the “background music” for the closing event of Jochen Gerz’s show The Gift. I’ve finally gotten around to making an [...]
Tags:Erik Satie·free shit!·Jochem Gerz·Seth Horvitz·SFMOMA·sutekh·The Gift·Vexations
Arnold Schoenberg on the effects of radio
May 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
“Quite certainly the radio is a foe!–and so are the gramophone and sound-film. An inexorable foe, irresistibly on the advance; opposition is a hopeless prospect. Here are the most damaging things it does: 1. It accustoms the ear to an unspeakable coarse tone…[A]s they become more familiar, one will adopt them as the criterion for [...]
Tags:consumption·radio·Schoenberg
Morton Feldman speaks out on the current state of music software!
May 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
“What is teaching? Teaching is in a sense what happened with Hindemith. This is the story about Hindemith and Yale: He says to somebody, ‘You know, I invented a system where you can be stupid and get good results?’ That was the whole idea—finding ways to make it democratic. It’s not democratic. I mean, composition [...]
Tags:democracy·Feldman·Hindemith·Kraftwerk·software·teaching