Author Archives: Andrew Lison

Fear of Music: Is Experimental Music an Institution, or Institutionalizable?

Although it never quite fully answers its foundational question, Fear of Music does provide the necessary background for interested readers to formulate their own answers while at the same time raising interesting questions about the relationship of the arts across disciplines.

Hope Against Hope: Utopia in Four Movements

Never has the utopian impulse seemed closer to realization and yet never has its hope been so permanently extinguished than in the past century. It is precisely these events, and a concern for the century without such a hope presently yawning in front of us, that motivates filmmaker Sam Green’s new work in progress, Utopia in Four Movements.