Reginald Bain

"The greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and humanities."

Edward O. Wilson

"Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which [we] can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one."

Iannis Xenakis

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Welcome to Reginald Bain's Web site. Dr. Bain is Professor of Music at the University of South Carolina where he also serves as coordinator of the Composition and Theory programs and Director of the Experimental Music Studio xMUSE. If you would like to learn more about his work, please click on one of the links above.

Links for Students

Summer II 2009

MUSC 116 MUSC 725

Quotable

"Even Cathy Berberian knows
There's one roulade she can't sing."

Steely Dan
"Your Gold Teeth"
Countdown to Ecstasy (1973)

"It is more interesting to get good at something than to be good at something."

Paul Lanksy
"A Computer-Music Man Unplugs"
The New York Times, August 3, 2008

"Composing music may be the loneliest of artistic pursuits. It is a laborious traversal of an imaginary landscape. Emerging from the process is an art work in code, which other musicians must be persuaded to unravel."

Alex Ross
"Apparition in the Woods: Rescuing Sibelius from silence"
The New Yorker, July 9 & 16, 2007

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