"For me music must be something, not necessarily a musical thing. Experience through music, and that is music. We don't have to reach it. If we have something to reach, we have a limitation."

- Taku Sugimoto, interview in The Wire (Issue 237)

"Art creates new forms of experience that never existed before—experiences that cleanse our souls, destroy our clichés, show us new ways of thinking and feeling, give us new perceptual and emotional powers. Art does that by inventing new forms of expression—forms that break away from “conventions,” that de-familiarize “normal” reality, that challenge “ordinary” vision and thought, that make us see and feel differently. At least that's what real art does. It rewires your brain. It gives you new capacities of perception, new forms of understanding. It doesn't merely re-cycle or embody known cultural norms and values. It makes new life, makes new experience, makes new interest. It doesn't just reproduce something we already have, something already out there."

- Ray Carney

Alex Ross has written a wonderful article on Morton Feldman for the New Yorker and has posted a terrific addendum on his blog

The Wire has posted unpublished photos of the recent Resonant Spaces tour by John Butcher and Akio Suzuki