Leading free jazz composer, bandleader, and pianist Sun Ra often used them to rearrange the musical furniture, as described by scholar John F. Szwed: When he sensed that [a] piece needed an introduction or an ending, a new direction or fresh material, he would call for a space chord, a collectively improvised tone cluster at high volume which "would suggest a new melody, maybe a rhythm".
BAM, as ever, champions the new: its fall season includes the New York première of the composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin's opera about Walt Whitman, "Crossing" (Oct . 3-8, and "Road Trip," a burst of fresh material from the composers of Bang on a Can which celebrates the collective's thirtieth anniversary (Oct . 27-28.
In a quest for fresh material, blue-chip contemporary-art dealers are finding a healthy source of revenue buried six feet under.
Tiphaine Samoyault – who had access to a wealth of fresh material – is no ordinary biographer, however.
On the verge of releasing a trove of fresh material, the first of which is the new song Take Me Down for the Gulf coast oil spill drama Deepwater Horizon, Clark discusses how Take Me Down could pave a possible path to an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) and what it's like hanging out with the Rolling Stones.
(I) looks to have a lot of fresh material on its surfaces.
Similarly, a comparison of fresh material and herbarium specimens of three Quillaja species revealed non-significant differences in their phenolic constituents [ 36].
Blur will also release a new single entitled Under the Westway around the same time as the Hyde Park, but Albarn has quashed speculation an album of fresh material will follow, because he wants to leave on a high note.
On Thursday evening, the group -- Laura Barger and Ning Yu (who joined in September), pianists; and Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg, percussionists -- inaugurated a residency at the Issue Project Room in downtown Brooklyn, meant to serve as an incubator for fresh material.
