Essay – Dan Joseph

My Former Life as a Musical Ecologist

I can still remember what life was like before, but just barely. February was one of the most active musical months in recent memory for me, a fully embodied realization of all that I have aspired to, and what I

Jen Kutler

November Essays

My final essay in a four-part series published by the essential NewMusicBox web magazine. You can find all four pieces here: nmbx.newmusicusa.org/author/danjoseph For the final installment on his series about what to do as a mid-career composer, @dcomposer asserts that,

Mid-Career

The first in a four-part series of essays I am writing throughout the month of November for NewMusicBox concerns what it means to be a mid-career composer: @dcomposer attempts to unravel what it means to be a #midcareer composer https://t.co/cLXtnmlS6y

His Name Is Alive

My life as a music person is punctuated by periodic grand epiphanies (grand on a personal level that is), where seemingly out of nowhere a set of connections are suddenly made that bring into focus a particular artist or musical

Etiquette

My piece on professional courtesy published on NewMusicBox.org: Thank You For Your Reply by @dcomposer | @NewMusicBox https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/thank-you-for-your-reply/ â€” New Music USA (@NewMusicUSA) December 11, 2014

Silent Music

While collecting some writing samples for a proposal for a new article, I happened on this piece I wrote nearly two years ago that remains unpublished. I had nearly forgotten about it, but it contains some lingering questions that come

Cage/Asia

My response to Daniel Asia’s mean-spirited Huffington Post commentary on John Cage published in NewMusicBox.org: Dan Joseph reflects on Daniel Asia’s @HuffingtonPost reaction to Cage https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/are-you-putting-me-on/ â€” NewMusicBox (@newmusicbox) January 10, 2013

Gen X

My piece on Generation X composers and their relative absence published by NewMusicBox.org: Dan Joseph is talkin’ ’bout his generation – https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/my-generation/ â€” NewMusicBox (@newmusicbox) December 5, 2012