Reminded by the instruments : david tudor's music / You Nakai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakai, Yū, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pianists.

United States.

Tudor, David, 1926-1996.

Tudor, David.

Tudor, David, 1926-1996--Archives.

Tudor, David, 1926-1996--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Archives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (768 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Reminded by the Instruments' offers an in-depth look at the work of post-war avant-garde pianist and composer David Tudor. Examining not only Tudor's pioneering work as a composer-performer but also his homemade modular instruments that radically altered electronic music, author You Nakai illuminates our understanding of the means of sound production in experimental music.

Contents:

In : The other side (A likely story)

Piano : Escapement mechanism ; David Tudor

Amplified piano

Sound systems : Ten selected realizations ; Fontana mix (Version for bass drum and electronics)

Bandoneon! : Instrumentalization of sound ; Giant white noise generator

Pepsi Pavilion

Island eye island ear

Natural objects : Sources ; Versions ; Series

(Likeness to) voices : Likeness to music ; Likeness to speech ; Likeness to language

Reflections : Positive ; Negative

Neural syntheses

Out: Maps and fragments

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Notable realizations

Appendix B: Rainforest amplifiers

Appendix C: Matrix mag diagrams

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-068678-2

0-19-068679-0

0-19-068677-4