Read:
Horia Surianu, "Romanian spectral music or another expression freed"
Radulescu interview with Bob Gilmore
William Dougherty, "On Horatiu Radulescu's Fifth String Quartet (Before the Universe was Born), Op. 89"
Julian Anderson introduces the work of Kaija Saariaho
Additional Readings:
Horatiu Radulescu, "Brain and Sound Resonance: The World of self-Generative Functions as a Basis of the Spectral Language of Music"
Bob Gilmore, "Spectral techniques in Radulescu's Second Piano Sonata"
Radulescu interview with Guy Livingston
Listen:
Radulescu, Das Andere for solo viola (1984)
Radulescu, Vth String Quartet, Before the universe was born, Op. 89
Performance by the JACK quartet at MEC
Kaija Saariaho, Sept Papillons for solo cello
Saariaho, From the Grammar of Dreams (version for soprano and electronics, 2002)
Scores:
Radulescu, Das Andere for viola (1984)
Sept Papillons for solo cello (2000)
Assignment 5, due March 8:
Saariaho's Sept Papillon IV doc, pdf
Resources: