With radio's renewed emphasis on "live and local" as its franchise in a world of proliferating audio choices comes the tacit suggestion that broadcasters may have to get out of the "continuous music"… ...

One of the key influences on Melnyk’s musical development was American composer Terry Riley’s seminal minimalist work In C. Intriguingly, Melnyk’s Sydney Festival concert had striking parallels with ...

Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk works his fingers at a dizzying 19.5 notes per second. He reckons the result what he calls “continuous music” is the first innovation in piano playing for more than ...

Lubomyr Melnyk, the German-born Ukrainian composer, is known for his creations of ‘continuous music’: extensive explorations of piano notes played rapidly in complex series. It’s a technique that has ...

Ukrainian pianist and composer Lubomyr Melnyk has spent his career developing a method of performance called "continuous music," one that splits the difference between Minimalism and New Age. His ...

Lately, whenever I think about my favorite experimental music of 2013, I keep realizing how arbitrary list-making is. For any ten records I might choose, there are likely another 100 I haven’t even ...