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More than two years in the making, Music & Literature no. 8 showcases the work of three artists who have renewed their inherited traditions—modern literature, classical music, and jazz—and brought innovation to their disciplines. Éric Chevillard, Unsuk Chin, and Mark Turner have been expanding the possibilities of their forms for decades, and the fruits of their unwavering efforts are on full display in the most extensive M&L to date.
Beloved for his playful and sharply intelligent fiction, Éric Chevillard is a voice worthy of a global readership. His portfolio includes never-before-translated shorts, novel and journal excerpts, as well as works for children that cheekily subvert the conventions of French literature. His collaborations with visual artists, including fellow “outsider” Gaston Chaissac, receive special attention, as do his astute and often hilariously caustic reviews. Ushered into English by a host of brilliant translators, this portfolio is rounded out with exclusive interviews with Chevillard and appreciations from his peers.
Korean composer Unsuk Chin has made her home in Germany for over twenty years and gained a devoted international following for her eclectic and challenging body of work. Drawing on everything from folk music and street art to Kafka and Lewis Carroll, Unsuk Chin’s radical imagination shares a spiritual kinship with Stravinsky and Debussy, even as it claims new territories for classical music. Revolving around her own writings on her compositional process, literary inspirations, and mentor, György Ligeti, Chin’s profile also features two newly translated interviews and previously unreleased materials from the composer’s archives.
Finally, in a first for Music & Literature—one proving that the M&L aesthetic is as at home in jazz as in classical music—we are excited to offer a portfolio exploring the career of American saxophonist Mark Turner, one of the most influential musicians of his generation. Here, an extensive conversation with Ben Ratliff is complemented by a series of reflections on Turner’s life, work, and utterly unique sound by longtime collaborators, students, and friends. Transcriptions and facsimiles of his musical notebooks offer further insight into an artist of exceptional depth and creative vision.
CONTENTS
I. ÉRIC CHEVILLARD
The Complete Published Works of Éric Chevillard
Hegel’s Cap / Éric Chevillard, trans. Jordan Stump
Peter and the Wolf / Éric Chevillard, trans. Jordan Stump
Autofiction / Éric Chevillard, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
Moles / Éric Chevillard, trans. Alyson Waters
An Excerpt from The Brave Little Tailor / Éric Chevillard, trans. Jordan Stump
An Excerpt from The Posthumous Works of Thomas Pilaster / Éric Chevillard, trans. Chris Clarke
A Selection of Paintings Appearing in Full Force and Elsewhere / Gaston Chaissac
Extracts from The Autofictive / Éric Chevillard, trans. Jordan Stump
Excerpts from Suzie’s Theories / Jean-François Martin (illus.) & Éric Chevillard, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
Excerpts from Agathe’s Menagerie / Frédéric Rébéna (illus.) & Éric Chevillard, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
Le Monde des Livres: Chevillard as Literary Critic / Anne Roche, trans. Sandra Smith
In the Abyss / Éric Chevillard, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
Pure Moods / Éric Chevillard, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
A Hard Blow for Europe / Éric Chevillard, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
An Impeccable Feast / Éric Chevillard, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
Bursting at the Sentences / Éric Chevillard, trans. Daniel Levin Becker
A Conversation with Éric Chevillard / Alyson Waters, trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman
Exhausting the Form: A Conversation / Pierre Jourde with Éric Chevillard, trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman
An Unquiet Place: An Interview / Anne Diatkine with Éric Chevillard, trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman
Chevillard, the Author, and Me: An Introduction / Olivier Bessard-Banquy & Pierre Jourde, trans. Sandra Smith
What Is Palafox? / Sam Byers
Review of Disorder According to QWERTY / Claro, trans. Brian Evenson
Chevillard; or, the Art of Birlibirloque / Lydie Salvayre, trans. Brian Evenson
Chevillard’s Dog / Jeremy M. Davies
The Author Viewed from Below / Pierre Senges, trans. Jacob Siefring
Final Bouquet / Anne Weber, trans. Shaun Whiteside
II. UNSUK CHIN
Major Works of Unsuk Chin
Honoring Unsuk Chin / Kent Nagano, trans. Shaun Whiteside
Notes on Kalá / Unsuk Chin, trans. Shaun Whiteside
Notes on Cantatrix Sopranica / Unsuk Chin, trans. Shaun Whiteside
Notes on Gougalōn: Scenes from a street theatre / Unsuk Chin, trans. Shaun Whiteside
Thoughts on Le Silence des Sirènes / Unsuk Chin & Maris Gothóni, trans. Thomas May
Courage / Unsuk Chin
For György Ligeti on His Eightieth Birthday / Unsuk Chin, trans. Shaun Whiteside
A Conversation with Unsuk Chin / Gregor Dotzauer, trans. Shaun Whiteside
Searching for the Essence: An Interview / Matthias Essenpreis with Unsuk Chin, trans. Thomas May
On the Piano Etudes of Unsuk Chin / Clemens J. Setz, trans. Ross Benjamin
Piano Concerto, First Movement / Donna Stonecipher
Looking-glass Opera / Alex Ross
A Tribute to Unsuk Chin / George Benjamin
III. maRk turner
Selected Recordings of Mark Turner
A Conversation with Mark Turner / Ben Ratliff
Seventeen Ways of Looking at Mark Turner: Melissa Aldana / Omer Avital / Jeff Ballard / Avishai Cohen / Marcus Gilmore / María Kim Grand / Larry Grenadier / Helena Hansen / Billy Hart with Ethan Iverson / Gilad Hekselman / Joe Martin / Kurt Rosenwinkel / Jorge Rossy / Baptiste Trotignon / Ben Wendel / Patrick Zimmerli
Honor What They Say: Mark Turner, Student and Teacher / Kevin Sun
Threshold Angels / Jesse Ruddock
The Middle Way / Spencer Matheson
Self Portrait / Fiston Mwanza Mujila, trans. Roland Glasser