Derek Baron – Into The Planetarium

Derek Baron is a composer, musician, and writer living in New York City. They have released a number of solo recordings of chamber, computer, and concrete music on record labels such as Recital, Pentiments, Penultimate Press, and Regional Bears. Their amateur chamber ensemble, Cop Tears, has recorded the music of John Cage, Theodor Adorno, Peggy Seeger, Alma Mahler, and others. They also collaborate as Permanent Six Flags with writer Emily Martin. Derek runs the record label Reading Group, which since 2016 has released experimental music and archival audio documents from artists like Anne-F Jacques, David Wojnarowicz, Marcin Barski, Ishmael Reed, Fred Moten, Blanche Blanche Blanche, Carman Moore, and others. Derek is currently at work on a larger-scale work of chamber/audio music entitled The Holy Restaurant.  

My Scattered Notes

To the planetarium

Walter Benjamin, One Way Street

Astor Place Riot, To the 

Tzimtzum, creative stepping back, Kabbalist

Adamic language

Staff picks film ‘marathon’ – films connected by a thread between each film , spark

2. E catalog

Record. Make archive

Collage as an information process?  De & Reconstruction

Threads and tangent 

Concentric palaces, membrane 

Lit and unlit. Not full and empty