Koehne's approach is to chronicle the vicissitudes of life in what Gilles Lipovetsky argues is today's hypermodern world. Intellectually, the world that the three works inhabit can no longer be described accurately as postmodern. Philosophically, Koehne's creative locus intersects with the idea of the ecstatic quotidian, as articulated by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei. Focusing on three recent works by Koehne (In-Flight Entertainment, The Ringtone Cycle, and Mass for the Middle Aged), the study maps his aesthetic and praxis onto philosophical, intellectual, and aesthetic strategies aligned with the everyday, or quotidian, and its artistic expression. This article evaluates the compositional aesthetic of the Yale-educated, Virgil Thomson-trained Australian composer Graeme Koehne (b.
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