Angels and Demons

Daniel Muzyczuk

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Aki Onda, Nam June’s Spirit was Speaking to Me, 2017/2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Hong Cheolki. Courtesy of Seoul Museum of Art.
Issue #156
September 2025










Notes
1

Meredith L. Young-Sowers, Agartha: Journey to the Stars (Stillpoint Pub, 1984).

2

Rudolf Steiner, “Music, the Astral World and Devachan,” in Music, Mysticism and Magic: A Sourcebook ed. Joscelyn Goodwin (Arcana, 1986), 254.

3

Quoted in Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers, “Webern’s Angels: Rilkean Intransitivity and Transcendence in Two Lieder, Op. 8,” Journal of Musicology 32, no. 1 (Winter 2015).

4

Quoted in Pedneault-Deslauriers, “Webern’s Angels.”

5

Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Project Gutenberg →.

6

Quoted and translated in Veit Erlmann, Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality (Zone Books, 2010), 325–26.

7

Pauline Oliveros, “Deep Listening Pieces” →.

8

Pauline Oliveros, interview by Tina Pearson, “Angels and Demons,” Musicworks, no. 31 (Spring 1985): 5.

9

Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osborne (Verso, 1999), 34.

10

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, “Singing,” in A Treatise on Stars (New Directions, 2020), 81.







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