FROM THE VAULT: Corollaries by Lubomyr Melnyk

About this episode

The episode explores the music and philosophy of pianist Lubomyr Melnyk, focusing on his album 'Corollaries'.

This week's episode is another FROM THE VAULT as we travel back to one of our (sadly) many episodes that were recorded during the pandemic. This one is actually a condensing of two episodes on the weird/genius/odd/interesting music, and personality, of pianist Lubomyr Melnyk. Enjoy! Chris has been chomping at the bit to do this Lubomyr Melnyk album for a while. In fact, some may even remember that he brought it up during our Pandemic Mixtape. Well, the time has come to finally tackle this post-classical/minimalist work and in doing so we absolutely had to cover his…interesting thoughts on musical philosophy. Which cascades into his questionable thoughts on the actual science of how sound works. Which takes us down a big old rabbit hole, as I’m sure you can imagine. All of this to say that it takes us a while to get to the album as a result. Also, the dude’s done like 20+ albums (although we don’t cover all of them) so that’s another whole thing we had to deal with. We also talk about continuous music (the genre he reckons he’s in…of which he is the only practitioner), his incredible piano playing speed and a bunch more things. Our voyage into continuous music comes to a close as…

People in this episode

Host: Chris

Topics covered

• Lubomyr Melnyk
• continuous music
• post-classical music
• musical philosophy
• piano playing speed

Keywords

• Lubomyr Melnyk
• Corollaries
• continuous music
• post-classical
• musical philosophy
• Nils Frahm
• Peter Broderick

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Corollaries

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