Source: Music of the Avant-garde, 1966-1973

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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 ...
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Overview


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, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music.
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"Many unexpected delights."--Gramophone

"Source was there to document all the crazy changes in . . . art-music that we're always trying to one-up one another in our purported 'vast knowledge of' here in the TMT office. Score."--Tiny Mix Tapes

"Fascinating. . . . A healthy collection of prose descriptions trying to account for what was going on at the time."--Examiner.com

"Remarkable. . . . The book is a delight to hold and view. . . . Highly recommended."--Fontes Artis Musicae

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780520267459
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication date: 7/6/2011
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 396
  • Sales rank: 397,737
  • Product dimensions: 9.80 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author


Larry Austin was the founding editor of Source and is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of North Texas. Douglas Kahn is the author of Noise Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, and a Research Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
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Table of Contents


Preface: Source in the Cause of New Music, by Douglas Kahn
Introduction: Larry Austin on Source, from an interview by Douglas Kahn

ISSUE NO. 1

The Editors | Preface
Giuseppe Chiari | Quel che volete
Robert Ashley
• in memoriam...Esteban Gómez (quartet)
• in memoriam...John Smith (concerto)
• in memoriam...Crazy Horse (symphony)
• in memoriam...Kit Carson (opera)
plus Letter to the Editor
Earle Brown | Form in New Music
Harry Partch | Lecture
Harry Partch | And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma
Robert Ashley, Larry Austin, and Karlheinz Stockhausen | Conversation

ISSUE NO. 2

The Editors | Is the Composer Anonymous?
Toshi Ichiyanagi | Appearance, for 3 Instruments, 2 Oscillators, 2 Ring Modulators
Morton Feldman | Conversations Without Stravinsky
John Cage | 4'33"
plus correspondence and telephone conversation with the Editor
Gordon Mumma | Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer 1965
Jerry Hunt | Sur (Doctor) John Dee and Tabulatura Soyga

ISSUE NO. 3

Larry Austin, Stanley Lunetta, John Mizelle, and Arthur Woodbury | Groups Section
• Gordon Mumma and Larry Austin | Sonic Arts Group
• Robert Ashley | The ONCE Group
• Musica Elettronica Viva | WORDS . . .
David Behrman | Wave Train
Will Johnson | First Festival of Live-Electronic Music 1967
John Mizelle | Radial Energy I
Frederic Rzewski | Plan for Spacecraft
Pauline Oliveros | Some Sound Observations
Robert Moran | Titus Number 1 for Amplified Automobile
The Editors | Comment

ISSUE NO. 4

Robert Ashley | The Wolfman
John Cage and Lejaren Hiller | HPSCHD, interview by Larry Austin
Larry Austin | Accidents

ISSUE NO. 5

Anna [Annea] Lockwood | Glass Concert 2
Christian Wolff | Edges
Dick Higgins | Boredom and Danger
Stanley Lunetta | Spider-Song
Max Neuhaus | A Max Sampler: Six sound oriented pieces for situations other than that of the concert hall
Larry Austin | Events/Comments

ISSUE NO. 6

Dick Higgins | The Thousand Symphonies
Philip Corner | Anti-personnel Bomb
Editors and Respondents | Events/Comments: Is new music being used for political or social ends?
Jani Christou | Enantiodromia
Frederic Rzewski | Street Music and Symphony

ISSUE NO. 7

John Cage and Calvin Sumsion | Plexigram IV: Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel
• Barbara Rose | Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel
John Dinwiddie | MEWANTEMOOSEICDAY: John Cage in Davis, 1969
Dick Higgins | Towards the '70s
Arthur Woodbury | Velox
Pauline Oliveros | The Indefinite Integral of Psi Star Psi d Tau Equals One
Mark Riener | Phlegethon
Alvin Lucier | I Am Sitting In A Room and Vespers
Ben Johnston | How to Cook an Albatross
Jocy de Oliveira | Polinterações

ISSUE NO. 8

Sven Hansell and Harvey Matusow | Fylkingen 1970
• Åke Hodell, Mr. Smith in Rhodesia
• Bob Cobbing, Chamber Music
• Ferdinand Kriwet, Rundscheibe XIII
Lowell Cross | Audio/Video/Laser
Morton Feldman | Boola Boola
Larry Austin | Caritas and Transmission One
Stanley Lunetta | Moosack Machine
Peter Garland | "Sea Fever"
Larry Austin | Editorial

ISSUE NO. 9

David Rosenboom | Noise Abatement Resolution
Anna [Annea] Lockwood | Piano Burning and Tiger Balm
Nelson Howe | Fur Music
Nicolas Slonimsky, Möbius Strip-Tease
Stanley Lunetta | Events/Comments
• Donald Buchla | On the Desirability of Distinguishing between Sound and Structure
The Editors | International Carnival of Experimental Sound

ISSUE NO. 10

Alvin Lucier | Gentle Fire and Queen of the South
"Naked Software"
• Harvey Matusow | Naked Software: 12-Cassette Spatial Sound System
• Anna [Annea] Lockwood: River Archive
• John Lifton | Project: International Concert of Public Noise
• John Lifton | Interface 3A
Stuart Marshall | "Exhibition on 3 Hills"
Steve Reich | "Music as a Gradual Process" and Pendulum Music
Anthony Braxton | 8KN-(J-6)
1
R10
Cornelius Cardew | The Great Learning
Cornelius Cardew | The Scratch Orchestra: Draft Constitution
George Brecht | Land Mass Translocation
Christopher Hobbs | The Friesian Cow a.d.r. | Portsmouth Sinfonia
Gavin Bryars | Verbal Pieces
Pauline Oliveros | Sonic Meditations

ISSUE NO. 11

Ken Friedman and Stanley Lunetta | Editorial
• Ken Friedman | International Sources: Notes on the Exhibition
Ken Friedman | NYCS Weekly Breeder
Max Neuhaus | Water Whistle
Robert Filliou | Telepathic Music
Image Bank | New York Corres-Sponge Dance School of Vancouver
Nam June Paik | "My Symphonies" and "Postmusic"
Charles Amirkhanian | "xvurt" and "bcuhla"
John Paul Rhinehart and Stanley Marsh 3 | Chromatic Tree Harp

Appendix: Complete Contents of Source
Credits

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