Notes on Other Music

Notes on Other Music was published on the occasion of the Fourth Edition Festival for Other Music and collected the various essays, interviews and conversations published during the first few years of the festival alongside some new material commissioned especially for this edition.

The first printed edition of the book is long sold out. Shoom — a publisher in Russia — also translated Notes and made a lovely bilingual Russian/English edition of it, designed by Allon Kaye (of Entracte fame) that is still available.

( Eliane Radigue’s Occam Ocean )

Kate Molleson

Radigue has always objected to her works being categorised as ‘drone music’: too reductive, too static, too concerned with fundamentals. “Of course, we need fundamentals in order to produce harmonics, but they are just the base, like something to sit on.” She pats the sofa beneath her. “Above, up here, is where you can move your arms, your head, where the interesting things happen. For me a piece is alright when a listener forgets about the fundamentals. My pieces start very quietly in order to give listeners and performers time to adjust their ears — to lay down the fundamentals solidly enough that we can then forget about them completely.” ...

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( Okkyung Lee & Ikue Mori: In Conversation )

this interview was conducted at a cozy teahouse in east village on a cold but not freezing january day. ikue drank versaille lavender earl grey tea while okkyung drank masala chai tea.

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( Daichi Yoshikawa: An Interview )

**Daichi Yoshikawa plays the Third Edition Festival for Other Music in a duo with French saxophonist Jean Luc Guionnet on Saturday 10 February 2018.** **I first met Daichi Yoshikawa when we were both working together at [Cafe OTO](http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/) in London. After living in London for several years he moved to Berlin before finally returning to Japan to live in October 2017. We met up in Tokyo in early November.**

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( In Conversation: Áine O’Dwyer & Mark Harwood )

**Mark: I’m not going to do a sit down and just ask questions…** **Áine: Thanks be to God, that just kills me. Speaking of death, can I get a lighter?** **Lovely.**

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( Terre Thaemlitz Interview )

Frida Sandström

In conjunction with the screening of Deproduction at Third Edition, Frida Sandström joined Terre Thaemlitz for a conversation over email, on the art industry, on the biographical and on the question of when a speech act becomes a performance.

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