Cybersonic Arts

Author: Fillion   Michelle  

Publisher: University of Illinois Press‎

Publication year: 2015

E-ISBN: 9780252097546

Subject: J6 Music;K81 Biography

Keyword: 音乐,传记

Language: ENG

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Description

A candid account of a broad artistic community by an active participant and observer

Chapter

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Musical Examples

Tables

Foreword

Introduction

Preamble. Gordon Mumma: A Short Biography

Part I. Unmarked Interchange: Ann Arbor and the ONCE Years (1960–66)

1. Music’s Avant-Garde: What’s New?

2. Manifestations: Light and Sound: Milton Cohen’s Space Theatre

3. An Electronic Music Studio for the Independent Composer

4. The ONCE Festival and How It Happened

5. The ONCE Group’s Unmarked Interchange and Night Train

Part II. Cybersonics and the Sonic Arts (1966–75)

6. Creative Aspects of Live-Performance Electronic Music Technology

7. Alvin Lucier’s Music for Solo Performer 1965

8. Two Cybersonic Works: Horn and Hornpipe

9. Music in America 1970: Points of View

10. A Brief Introduction to the Sound-Modifier Console and Sun(flower) Burst

11. What We Did Last Summer: A Commentary on ICES 1972

12. Two Decades of Live-Electronic Music, 1950–70

13, Witchcraft, Cybersonics, and Folkloric Virtuosity

Part III. In the Cunningham Circle

14. A Day on the Road with the Cunningham Dance Company

15. From Where the Circus Went

16. Robert Rauschenberg in the Creative Fields of the Cunningham Dance Company

17. With Tudor the Organist

18. David Tudor the Composer along the Path to Rainforest

Part IV. Not Wanting to Say Anything about John (Cage)

19. Cage as Performer

20. John Cage, Electronic Technology, and Live-Electronic Music

21. Twenty-Five Minutes with John Cage

Part V. Latin America

22. Innovation in Latin American Electro-Acoustical Music

23. Briefly about Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano

24. Uruguayan Diary: The Cuarto Curso Latinoamericano de Música Contemporánea, Cerro del Toro

Part VI. An American Gallery

25. Nelson Mix for Gordon Mumma

26. Gordon Mumma’s Stovepipe for Richard Nelson

27. Good Times Up on the Farm

28. Merce and Ludwig

29. On the Ives Railroad

30. A Visit to Mount Olympus with David Tudor

31. On George Cacioppo

32. Earle’s Worlds

Three Sonic Arts Union Sketches

33. Speaking Robert Ashley

34. Crossings with David Behrman

35. Becoming Alvin Lucier

36. Working with Pauline Oliveros

Part VII. Mumma on Mumma

37. Notes on My Creative Procedures

Appendix: Selective List of Gordon Mumma’s Musical Compositions

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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