James Tenney : writings and interviews on experimental music / edited by Robert Wannamaker, Lauren Pratt, and Tashi Wada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pratt, Lauren, editor.

Wada, Tashi, editor.

Wannamaker, Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avant-garde (Music).

Computer music.

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout James Tenney's five-decade artistic career. The eminent American-Canadian composer James Tenney (1934-2006) made groundbreaking contributions to sampling culture, digital sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, minimalism, spectral music, music in non-standard tuning systems, contemporary theories of form and harmony, and the consolidation of an American experimental-music tradition. This book documents both his own work and his involvements with influential figures in mid-century American music, film, art, and technology. The writings are accompanied by photographs, artworks, compositional sketches, archival documents, and previously unpublished scores. Appendices supply, for the first time, exhaustive lists of Tenney's compositions and published writings, as well as performance chronologies that capture his influential contributions to the experimental arts in New York City and elsewhere in the 1960s and 1970s.

Contents:

List of Figures Preface 1. Introduction 2. Early Years (1934-1961) 3. Electronic and Computer Music (1961-64) 4. With Carolee Schneemann (1955-1968) 5. Media, Performance, and Society (1963-69) 6. Continuity and Harmony (1970-1985) 7. Entropy and Agency (1986-2006) 8. On Other Artists 9. On Harmonic Theory Appendix A List of Works Appendix B List of Writings Appendix C Performances by Tenney (1954-79) Appendix D Performances of Tenney's Music (1956-76) Bibliography Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798765121351

9798765121344

9798765121337

OCLC:

1465270943