Kyle Gann's Writings
Books and Journalism:
A Robert Ashley Web Page to accompany my book Robert Ashley
No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33" (Yale University Press)
A Conlon Nancarrow Web Page
A La Monte Young Web Page (in preparation)
"The Outer Edge of Consonance" from the book Sound and Light: La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela (PDF)
Intuition and Algorithm in Einstein on the Beach: A paper presented at the University of Amsterdam, January 6, 2013
Read Kyle Gann on Henry Cowell (6.1.98)
American Music in the 20th Century (12.1.97)
A bibliographical listing of Kyle Gann's complete articles for the Village Voice
A Bibliography of Gann's other writings
Essays by Kyle Gann printed in full:
From the PostClassic blog:
Selected Archived Entries
On Gann's music:
The Melody to My Madness; or, Why I Am a Melodic, Rather than a Textural, Postminimalist (11.27.09)
Naive Pictorialism: Towards a Gannian Aesthetic (12.27.01)
The Case Against Over-notation: A Defense and a Diatribe (6.28.00)
A 1997 Biographical Statement
On American music:
A Forest from the Seeds of Minimalism: An Essay on Postminimal and Totalist Music (1.4.99)
Downtown Music: An Encyclopedia Article (6.25.05)
Breaking the Chain Letter: An Essay on Downtown Music (4.18.98)
What Women's Music Does, or Doesn't, Mean: An Essay on Women Composers (5.2.99)
Banging on Pianos: The Permanent Nature of America's Classical Tradition (7.10.00)
"We are living in the new Soviet Union": a credo about censorship and the internet
(Audio) John Schafer's Interview with Kyle Gann, July 8, 2005 on WNYC
Links to Kyle Gann's Articles on Other Web Sites:
Kyle Gann's blog PostClassic, as in Post-Classical music, at Arts Journal
Intuition and Algorithm in Einstein on the Beach - an analysis of Philip Glass's seminal opera
The Minnesota Public Radio show American Mavericks,
written by Kyle Gann and hosted by Suzanne Vega and Michael Tilson Thomas - winner of the Peabody Award
Making Marx in the Music - a history of political music on New Music Box
Minimal Music, Maximal Impact - a history of minimalist, postminimalist, and totalist music on New Music Box - winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (12.01.01)
Between U S - a survey of alternate and historical tunings on New Music Box (9.1.00)
Back to Nature - Tracing the History of an American Classical tradition on New Music Box (4.1.02)
Daniel Varela's interview with Kyle Gann on Perfect Sound Forever web magazine (May 2004)
Jeff Lunden interviews Kyle Gann about My father moved through dooms of love
John Ruscher interiews Kyle Gann about John Cage's 4'33"
Read Kyle Gann's recent columns from the Village Voice, back to September 1998, at villagevoice.com
Read Kyle Gann's articles, and articles about him, in the New York Times at nytimes.com (for a small charge via Qpass)
Responses to Gann's work:
Frank Oteri's Interview with Kyle Gann on the April 2010 New Music Box. (4.1.10)
Everywhere at Once: John Luther Adams on Kyle Gann on the March 2003 New Music Box. (5.8.03)
Paul Griffiths' review of Kyle Gann's February 19, 1998, concert in the New York Times
Bernard Holland's response in the New York Times to Kyle Gann's American Music in the Twentieth Century (6.1.98)
Allan Kozinn's' review of the New York premiere of Kyle Gann's Custer and Sitting Bull in the New York Times (12.12.00)
