Kurt Gottschalk

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The Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Five Decades of Great Black Music
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Avant-garde jazz group The Art Ensemble of Chicago has been breaking boundaries for more than five decades. Kurt Gottschalk takes a deep dive into the group's history and its continuing evolution in the present. "A revolutionary who’s unwilling to change won’t likely be revolutionary for long," Gottschalk writes. Read an extended excerpt from the author's feature which runs over 30 pages in the new 17th issue of White Fungus.
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An Inquiry Concerning the Possibilities and Vagaries of Listening to Music while Sleeping — with Testimonial Consideration by Composers and Practitioners in the Field
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Kurt Gottschalk attended a New York performance of Max Richter's SLEEP, in which audience members are invited to stay overnight at a concert, slowing down to share a collective, somatic experience of music. Gottschalk reported on the experience for White Fungus. Speaking to other composers on the topic, and revisiting historic works, he extended his inquiry to consider at length this different process of listening.
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The Music, Noise and Voice of Charmaine Lee
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Kurt Gottschalk speaks to Charmaine Lee about her ever-expanding musical practice.
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Kurt Gottschalk talks to Aki Onda about channelling the spirit of Nam June Paik.
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Kurt Gottschalk writes about legendary San Francisco experimental music group The Residents.
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America's Last Sweetheart
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Kurt Gottschalk writes about his life-long fascination with Dolly Parton. With illustrations by Emma Gineering.