<p>What I'm listening to today: "Tratto II", Bernd Alois Zimmermann</p><p>Zimmerman was a mid-1900s German composer whose career seems too large to get a handle on without a visit to the reference library, but the running theme seems to be soaking up like a sponge everything happening in midcentury music from New Music to atonality to jazz. From 1969, here he drops a serene 12-minute "electroacoutic" piece, single notes held for minutes at a time, wallowing in a nameless emotion</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ju2N6-XzUQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=6ju2N6-XzUQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>