

In 1961, a Bell Labs engineer named Max Mathews, who had developed hardware and software that could convert digital signals to analog and thus play digital instructions as music, wanted to see how an adventurous musician might use.
DAVID LEWIN BEHIND THE BEYOND 1969 PROFESSIONAL
of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. David Lewin 58 was the first professional composer to use computer technology to write and produce music. In short, he has not only given brilliant instance of the confusions of contemporary social and political premises but has done so in remarkable constructs of their characteristic modes of statement, which are not simply parodic but rather reclamations, recyclings, of otherwise degraded material." ––"Help Is on the Way" in The American Book Review (Vol.14, No. MVP 4: The Basketball Blowout by David A. David Denny practiced medicine in Chester County, Pa., and it is not.

Robert Creeley: "Bernstein’s is the most provocatively intelligent reaction to the general drift of mainstream poetry, and he is an indefatigable writer of essays and poems wherein the determinations of genre are largely superseded. Lewin was reportedly stabbed aboard American Airlines Flight 11 as it was hijacked during the September 11 attacks. "A superb poet and great inventor of poetry, Charles Bernstein dazzlingly invents the essay for poetry: professing in a gorilla suit and white tuxedo.”Īll the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems: "Collecting 30 years’ worth of Bernstein’s thickly layered poetry, this volume rigorously critiques the art of poetry itself, modulating the comic with the dark, structural invention with buoyant wordplay" – The New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row, April 3, 2011īiographical Note for All the Whiskey in Heaven DAVID LEWIN Behind the Beyond: A Response to Edward T. Cone's essay 'Beyond Analysis,' cleverly titled 'Behind the Beyond,' Lewin writes: Whatever the use to which analysis is put (theoretical, historical, the acquisition of compositional craft, aid in preparing a performance), its goal is simply to hear the piece better, both in detail and in the large. “A major poet for our time - & then some – Charles Bernstein has emerged as a principal voice –maybe the best we have – for an international avant-garde now in its second century of visions & revisions." – Jerome Rothenberg on The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein. SPRING-SUMMER 1969 PERSPECTIVES OF NEW MUSIC PUBLISHED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS. Cones essay Beyond Analysis, cleverly titled Behind the Beyond, Lewin writes: Whatever the use to which analysis is.
