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 von Moritz Eggert

iRiley

There are probably few pieces of contemporary music which have such universal appeal as Terry Riley’s „in C“. Written at the start of the minimal music movement its idea is simple: over a continuous pulse of repeated C’s each player can add his/her own pattern, in a kind of semi-organized...

 von Moritz Eggert

An Analysis of Analysis

An Analysis of Analysis One of the pet peeves of every theory department of every Music University I know is: The general level of musical knowledge in the student body is falling. Which means: the students become worse and worse in tasks like aural training, sight reading, analysis and harmony....

 von Moritz Eggert

Music for the Unborn – an interview

The last years have seen a growing trend for exposing children to classical music – purposefully to heighten their intelligence and logical skills. There are countless studies which apparently prove that listening to Mozart will actually raise your IQ, so one might better start as early as possible to get a headstart in today’s tough and competitive world. Even though many people claim that these experiments are simply diversionary tactics to prevent the downfall of classical music, the grand experiment with our children has entered a new phase recently….with the introduction of concerts for pregnant women!

 von Moritz Eggert

Are you an artist? Test and questionnaire.

There are too many self-proclaimed artists on this planet. Everybody wants to be one – sound artist, cooking artist, master of arts, life style artist…

But many artists aren’t really artists. Artist as life style is not enough, when you seek only fame without the high personal prize that has to be paid for creating true art.

So are you, dear readers, true artists? Or not? Do you really want to know?

 von Moritz Eggert

We are not having it too good

Last time I asked the question if our general well-being and over-saturation in Europe and other rich parts of the world is creating more and more uninteresting art. The reaction of my readers was more or less: “well off? Me? I’m suffering for my art, I’m poor, I’m ignored, why should I be decadent!”. Others pointed at other (non-European) cultures and expressed hope that new impulses may come from truly understanding them (I agree wholeheartedly, but I just wish we had the guts to create change from within our own culture, or that encounter will be too onesided).
Biographies of artists were compared with respective own biographies, and there seemed to be a competition to prove that certain artists were not personally suffering and still creating great art.