Tag: Menchaca

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

When it comes to the loop or cycle, the endless maze or the infinity mirror we might think of Arvo Pärt's celebrated 1978 work Spiegel im Spiegel with its arpeggiated tonic triads, written in the composer's distinctive tintinnabuli style which was inspired by early monophonic chant and described as like the ringing of bells. We might think of James...