Category: Listening & Reception

Time, eternity and the problem of minimal music’s alleged non-linearity in Louis Andriessen’s De Tijd

Posted on 1st March 20139th May 2019 by Maarten Bierns (University of Amsterdam)

This article explores contrasts between time and eternity in Louis Andriessen’s De Tijd from 1981. The music, although inspired by the experience of “complete tranquility”, appears to establish a dialectical opposition between musical elements signifying timelessness and measured time.

Looking inward: La Monte Young, Arvo Pärt, and the spatiotemporal dwelling environment of minimalist music

Posted on 1st March 20139th May 2019 by Sarah C. Davachi (Mills College, California)

There is a thread of epistemic theory connecting the discourse of twentieth-century aesthetics and phenomenology which asserts that works of art open up or disclose a sort of ‘world’, so to speak, as well as an associated view of reality that accords with the subject’s primordial and embodied sense of being.