The classical record business gained a new lease on life in the 1980s when period instrument performances of baroque and classical music began to assume a place on the stage. This return to the past found its complement in the musical ascension of the American minimalists, in particular the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams, and smaller specialty labels that focused on experimental composers like John Cage. During this period of change—of classical music’s transition of lo...

American writer, composer, artist, and philosopher John Cage (1912–92) is best known for his experimental composition 4’33,” a musical score in which the performer does not play an instrument during the duration of the piece. The purpose, Cage said, was for the audience to listen to the sounds of the environment around them while the piece was performed. Groundbreaking pieces such as 4’33”, as well as Sonatas and Interludes not only established Cage as a leading ...

In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others.Virginia Anderson edits the first published collecti...

A Warhammer 40,000 AnthologyThese short stories include some of your favourite heroes and villains, and some new ones you might not yet be familiar with.READ IT BECAUSE21 authors explore the 41st Millennium in 24 short stories, with perspectives from within and without the Imperium of Mankind. There's something in here for every fan of Warhammer 40,000.THE STORYIn the grim darkness of the far future,...

A secret cabal of demonic forces threatens to destroy civilization and plunge the world into a new dark age. Humanity's only chance is a shadowy organization called grail--the modern day heirs to the knights templar--which has discovered the secret to time travel. The past cannot be changed, but if grail can send an agent into the past to recover a lost book on demonology called the codex babylon, they may have a fighting chance to save humanity from utter destruction. The ancient world wa...

Emotional abuse thrives in relationships where there is an imbalance of power, and of course, the victim is most times the one who has a lesser share of power. It comes with various manifestations like verbal aggression, manipulation, narcissism, and intimidation, to mention but a few. Emotional abuse comes with adverse effects; some temporary, others permanent. Such effects include death, depression, post-traumatic stress, etc. It is worthy of note that these effects do not immediately ap...