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Alex Ross
Personal blog · therestisnoise.comculturewriting
Alex Ross's personal blog at therestisnoise.com covers culture and writing. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
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Alex Ross's music criticism blog, linked for essays on composers such as Morton Feldman and for pieces on critics and the music world. One commenter called an Alex Ross essay good.
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Here's another active blog on Typepad https://www.therestisnoise.com/
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on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted Alex Ross is stepping down as music critic for The New Yorker as a story · 2 points
HN discussionKyle Gann (the author of this essay) has written some of the best English language essays on Morton Feldman. There's another good essay by Alex Ross, music critic at the New Yorker: http://www.therestisnoise.com/2006/06/morton_feldman_.html
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on “Almost Too Beautiful (2003)”Submitted NY Library moving - still relevant? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> But I think most of us can find some comfort in the words of Sibelius: "Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic." Well then, there must be some statue-based analogue of Rule 34, because... http://www.therestisnoise.com/2006/03/statues_of_crit.html
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on “The Unsure Artist”