Ronen Givony
Brooklyn, New York
illtemperedclavier [at] gmail

 

Wordless Music

 


Writing

 
Us v. Them: The Age of Indie Music and a Decade in New York, 2004-2014
(Abrams, 2026)


Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense
(Bloomsbury, 2020)


24 Hour Revenge Therapy (or, The Strange Death of Selling Out)
(Bloomsbury, 2018)


Tyondai Braxton: HIVE1 (Nonesuch, 2015)

Krzysztof Penderecki / Jonny Greenwood (Nonesuch, 2013)

Steve Reich: New York Stories (RBMA, 2013)

William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops (Temporary Residence, 2013)

Sandro Perri: Impossible Spaces (Constellation, 2011)

Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail (Nonesuch, 2010)

Steve Reich: Double Sextet / 2x5 (Nonesuch, 2010)

Timo Andres: Shy and Mighty (Nonesuch, 2010)

Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey, 2009)

Only Connect
 

Michael Steinberg: An Appreciation
 

Temporary Residence Limited Profile


Music

Remembering September 11: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Riceboy Sleeps: Live at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle

Jonny Greenwood / Gyorgy Ligeti / Glass-Bowie-Eno

Johann Johannsson's The Miners' Hymns

MONO: Holy Ground: NYC Live with Wordless Music Orchestra
(Temporary Residence, 2010)


Tyondai Braxton: Central Market (Warp, 2009)

Wordless Music on WNYC

The Varieties of Ambient Experience:
A Wordless Music Mix



All is Vanity

 

The New Yorker

The New York Times
(1) (2) (3) (4)

New York Magazine


Gramophone

 

Gothamist

 

Minnesota Public Radio