Source [electronic resource] : Music of the Avant-garde, 1966-1973

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Larry.

Contributor:

Kahn, Douglas.

Gurusinghe, Nilendra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avant-garde (Music).

Music--20th century.

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

Music.

Avant-garde (Music)--20th century.

Local Subjects:

Avant-garde (Music).

Music--20th century.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The journal Source: Music of the Avant-garde was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage, Harry Partch, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, and many others. A pathbreaking publication, Source documented crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermed

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface: Source in the Cause of New Music; Introduction: Larry Austin on Source: Music of the Avant Garde; Issue No.1; The Editors Preface; In Memoriam . . . Esteban Gómez (Quartet); In Memoriam . . . John Smith (Concerto); In Memoriam . . . Crazy Horse (Symphony); In Memoriam . . . Kit Carson (Opera); Letter to the Editor; Form in New Music; Lecture; And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma (excerpts); Conversation; Issue No. 2; The Editors: Is the Composer Anonymous?; Appearance, for 3 Instruments, 2 Oscillators, 2 Ring Modulators (Excerpt)

Conversations Without Stravinsky4'33''; Correspondence and telephone conversation with the Editor; Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer 1965; Sur (Doctor) John Dee and Tabulatura Soyga; Issue No. 3; Groups Section; Sonic Arts Group; The Once Group; Words . . .; Wave Train; First Festival of Live-Electronic Music 1967; Radial Energy I (Excerpt); Plan for Spacecraft; Some Sound Observations; Titus Number 1 for Amplified Automobile; The Editors: Comment; Issue No. 4; The Wolfman for amplified voice and tape; HPSCHD; Accidents; Issue No. 5; Glass Concert 2; Edges; Boredom and Danger

Spider-SongA Max Sampler: Six Sound Oriented Pieces for Situations Other Than That of the Concert Hall (1966-68); Events/Comments; Issue No. 6; The Thousand Symphonies; Anti-Personnel Bomb; Events/Comments Is New Music Being Used for Political or Social Ends?; Enantiodromia (Excerpt); Street Music and Symphony; Issue No. 7; Plexigram IV: Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel; Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel; MEWANTEMOOSEICDAY: John Cage in Davis, 1969; Towards the '70s; Velox; The Indefinite Integral of Psi Star Psi d Tau Equals One; Phlegethon

"I am sitting in a room" and VespersHow to Cook an Albatross; Polinterações; Issue No. 8; Fylkingen 1970; Mr. Smith in Rhodesia; Chamber Music; Rundscheibe XIII; Audio/Video/Laser (Excerpt); Boola Boola; Caritas and Transmission One; Moosack Machine; Sea Fever; Editorial; Issue No. 9; Noise Abatement Resolution; Piano Burning and Tiger Balm; Fur Music (excerpt); Möbius Strip-Tease; Events/Comments; On the Desirability of Distinguishing Between Sound and Structure; The Editors of Source Announce the International Carnival of Experimental Sound; Issue No. 10; Gentle Fire and Queen of the South

Naked SoftwareNaked Software: 12-Cassette Spatial Sound System; River Archive; Project: International Concert of Public Noise; Interface 3A; Exhibition on 3 Hills; "Music as a Gradual Process" and Pendulum Music; 8KN-(J-6) I R; The Great Learning (Excerpt); The Scratch Orchestra: Draft Constitution; Land Mass Translocation; The Friesian Cow; Portsmouth Sinfonia; Verbal Pieces; Sonic Meditations; Issue No. 11; Editorial; International Sources: Notes on the Exhibition; NYCS Weekly Breeder (Excerpt); Water Whistle; Telepathic Music; New York Corres-Sponge Dance School of Vancouver (Excerpt)

"My Symphonies" and "New Ontology of Music"

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-27726-3

9786613277268

0-520-94737-1

OCLC:

739051453