{"id":4520,"date":"2021-06-27T21:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T04:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2021-06-27T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T05:06:39","slug":"jon-hassell-avant-garde-us-composer-dies-aged-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/06\/27\/jon-hassell-avant-garde-us-composer-dies-aged-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Hassell, avant-garde US composer, dies aged 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice obituary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/jun\/27\/jon-hassell-radical-musician-who-studied-with-stockhausen-and-worked-with-eno\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Alexis Petridis on the Guardian<\/a> for Jon Hassell, a musician who blew me away in 1980 with sounds I couldn&#8217;t categorize. I still can&#8217;t.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2021\/jun\/27\/jon-hassell-radical-musician-who-studied-with-stockhausen-and-worked-with-eno\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/22c95b7368a40e280320579f06f1c1a56436736e\/0_0_1312_1983\/master\/1312.jpg?width=300&#038;quality=45&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=max&#038;dpr=2&#038;s=40efc3eb95b5727eac13da2d92096c96\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>as Eno put it, \u201cone overriding principle in Jon\u2019s work [was] that of respect \u2013 he looks at the world with all its momentary and evanescent moods with respect and that shows in his music\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>and another in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/27\/arts\/music\/jon-hassell-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the New York Times by Jon Pareles:<\/a><br \/>\nJon Hassell, Trumpeter and \u2018Fourth World\u2019 Composer, Dies at 84<\/p>\n<p>Blending modern technology with traditional instruments, Mr. Hassell created a genre he described as \u201ccoffee-colored classical music of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice obituary, by Alexis Petridis on the Guardian for Jon Hassell, a musician who blew me away in 1980 with sounds I couldn&#8217;t categorize. I still can&#8217;t. as Eno put it, \u201cone overriding principle in Jon\u2019s work [was] that of respect \u2013 he looks at the world with all its momentary and evanescent moods &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/06\/27\/jon-hassell-avant-garde-us-composer-dies-aged-84\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,2704,2148,2520,3279,17],"tags":[3373,3191,2705,3359,3375,3368,3372,3370,3364,3358,3367,3357,3106,3365,3363,3356,2706,2721,3374,3369,3360,3371,3366,3353,3376,3361,3362,3354,3355],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4520","6":"format-standard","7":"category-ethical-and-green-living","8":"category-faits-divers","9":"category-modern-music","10":"category-obituaries","11":"category-pandemic","12":"category-the-anthropocene","13":"category-thinking-about","14":"post_tag-3373","15":"post_tag-avant-garde","16":"post_tag-brian-eno","17":"post_tag-can","18":"post_tag-david-sylvian","19":"post_tag-electronic-effects","20":"post_tag-fourth-world-1-possible-musics","21":"post_tag-global-sounds","22":"post_tag-hassell","23":"post_tag-holger-czukay","24":"post_tag-indian-music","25":"post_tag-irmin-schmidt","26":"post_tag-jazz","27":"post_tag-john-cale","28":"post_tag-jon-hassell","29":"post_tag-karlheinz-stockhausen","30":"post_tag-la-monte-young","31":"post_tag-pandit-pran-nath","32":"post_tag-peter-gabriel","33":"post_tag-raga","34":"post_tag-robert-moog","35":"post_tag-sampling","36":"post_tag-sterling-morrison","37":"post_tag-talking-heads","38":"post_tag-tears-for-fears","39":"post_tag-terry-riley","40":"post_tag-theatre-of-eternal-music","41":"post_tag-trumpet","42":"post_tag-trumpet-player"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}