Nancarrow and McLaren

Tuesday's post about a late sixties technology that attempted to build a home theater revolution on something similar to super-8 film got me thinking about how clever 20th Century artists played with the media.Wednesday, February 11, 2015Analog recording without analogs [slightly edited repost] And now for something completely different... Two examples of artists who manually created their works on media normally used for analog recording. Conlon Nancarrow Nevertheless, it was in Mexico that Nancarrow did the work he is best known for today. He had already written some music in the United States, but the extreme technical demands his compositions required meant that satisfactory performances were very rare. That situation did not improve in Mexico's musical environment, also with few musicians available who could perform his works, so the need to find an alternative way of having his pieces performed became even more pressing. Taking a suggestion from Henry Cowell's book New Musical…