Second modernity : an attempted assessment / Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf -- Determinate action/indeterminate sound : tablature and chance in several recent works / Aaron Cassidy -- Plan and deviation : After Blinky Palermo / Sebastian Claren -- Recoil, for solo cello : background and analysis / Frank Cox -- Few examples from MAIM (Water, 2001/2, 2005, 2006/7) : how this music thinks / Chaya Czernowin -- Zappa speaks again : the Tempo mental rap variations, for solo guitar / Michael Edward Edgerton -- Analysis of my Kurtg̀ cycle / Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf -- The impossible and its methods / Brice Pauset -- Formal strategies in the works Hot powdery snow--, Ultima Thule, and Blick, verzaubert / Wolfram Schurig -- Diary of a lung : a guided tour / Steven Kazuo Takasugi -- Counterparts / Hans Thomalla.