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edition omega point archive series (japan) #opa 005 lp
omega point (japan) #opa 005 lp

toshi ichiyanagi “obscure tape music of japan vol.5 • music for tinguely” long playing record

  • toshi ichiyanagi - music for tinguely / 1963_10’01”
  • toshi ichiyanagi - appearance / 1967_20’36”
  • toshi ichiyanagi - music for living space / 1969_8’52”
yes, you’re reading this correctly. this is the vinyl version of “obscure tape music of japan vol.5” - apparently there was also a vinyl version of the first volume, which is now, sadly, o/p ...

the layout is minimal (in fact it is a plain white sleeve with the print-work from the cd edition pasted-on), but the pressing of the lp is superb (as with most/all japanese pressings) - definitely a nice thing...
edition omega point archive series press release...
obscure tape music of japan vol.5
toshi ichiyanagi "music for tinguely"

ichiyanagi is best known composer for domestic and foreign avant-garde music fans. especially in his brilliant 60's, he made many great tape music. but most of them has not published on discs or issued for very small edition. this cd consists of his obscure three tape works. "music for tinguely" was made from junk objects of kinetic sculptor jean tinguely. "appearance" is live electronic music. it's not only premire performance but also john cage and david tudor participated in performance. very noisy and hard core!! "music for living space" was composed for inner space of 'sun tower' of world expo in osaka. computer generated voice reads architect kisyo kurokawa's manifest. strange!!
...

about the works toshi ichiyanagi

music for tinguely

i believe it was 1963 when well known kinetic sculptor jean tinguely first visited japan to give one man show by his original works at minami gallery where was the center of new art in tokyo at that time. i was looking forward to this exhibition because i knew his work of self-destroyed piano performance1 took place at moma's garden in new york in 1960.

after arriving in tokyo, tinguely was searching to collect scraps everyday. in those days we could still find broken fragments of machines here and there in tokyo. his exhibition consisted all by new works. with all of his works motors were installed and though they were made of scraps some gave poetic images whereas others were noise making machineries with violent actions. scrap machineries were reborn as thythmic sculptures and enchanted gallery visitors.

after seeing the show, i noticed that he was carefully treating the sculpture movement from the sound point of view also. i was fascinated and not able to stop my interest to make music out of those sculpture sounds. i asked for permission to both tinguely and minami gallery to use sounds. tinguely was miable person. he accepted my proposal and became interested in my composition. and one of the composition made of tinguely's kinetic sculpture sound is this "music for tinguely". the piece was composed at the studio of sogetsu art center where at this time was most cooperative place to new music.

appearance

in 1967, i was staying in new york for about 10 months with my wife and 2 years old son as a composer in residence under the invitation of jdr 3rd fund. my position was quite free so i was enjoying stimulating new york life by meeting friends of various fields, participating concerts of john cage and david tudor and the members of sonic arts union and so on.

one day i had a visitor in my apartment who was the composer and the professor of university of california in davis mr. larry austin. he told me that he recently established a music publisher "composers' edition" and he wishes to commision me a new work. i felt strong enthusiasm to new music on his talk, i willingly accepted his offer.
"appearance" was composed under such background while i was in new york and published on first issue of composers' edition.

the piece is live electronic music and written by graphic notation for electronic equipments and some instruments 2. in this cd, john cage performs in the roll of manipulating electronics and david tudor bandneon and some young violinist and trumpet players participated.

music for living space

the tower named "sun tower" was constructed at the festival plaza when world expo was held in osaka in 1970. the tower had 3 layers inside. representing past was located undeground floor, present on ground level and the future up in the air.

i was asked by producer noboru kawazoe and composer toshiro mayuzumi to compose the music of the future section. it came to my mind ro use the theory talk of architect kisyo kurokawa as a part of music with whom i was working together at the other pavillion and had intimate relation. i thought unique theory of kurokawa could become music inside the future section of sun tower environment. so in stead of his natural voice, i decided to compose artificially made computer voice. at the time of 1970, to make computer speak japanese required advanced technic thus it took me many hours before the piece completed.

1: "hommage to new york"
2: instruction of 3 instruments, 2 oscillators and ring modulators

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01023-24 cd

christian wolff “kompositionen • 1950-1972” double compact disc set

  • duo for violinist and pianist (15:54) 1961
  • for prepared piano (6:01) 1951
  • for pianist (10:43) 1959
  • edges (13:05) 1968
  • duo for violins (6:25) 1950
  • for piano i (7:57) 1952
  • stones (5:45) 1968
  • lines (7:04) 1972
  • for pianist (5:24) 1959 version 2

  • suite (i) (7:00) 1954
  • for 1, 2, or 3 people (14:15) 1964
  • for pianist i (10:11) 1959
  • for 1, 2, or 3 people (9:43) 1964
  • for piano i (5:53) 1952
  • suite (i) (7:27) 1954
  • edges (9:20) 1968
  • drinks (7:46) 1969
september 2011 release ; ... superb overview of christian wolff’s early compositions ; features performances by keith rowe, david tudor, frederic rzewski, the “gentle fire” ensemble (hugh davies, graham hearn, michael robinson, richard benas, stuart jones) & many others ...
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ed. rz 1023-24 2cdchristian wolff: kompositionen 1950 - 1972

fresh release in september 2011: 2cd-set of compositions by christian wolff. most of the pieces collected for this portrait of christian wolff document the composer’s early activity and were mainly recorded around the time of their composition. each recording exemplifies the sound gestures from their time.

cover design: ott + stein, berlin
scan: christine berkenhoff

finally i realized that the kind of sound made in an indeterminate situation includes what could result in no other way; for example, the sound of a player making up his mind, or having to change it. in fact, the indeterminate notation i've used is, as far as i know, the only possible one for the kind of sound i should like. and don't forget, we also like to be surprised.

... and the rhythm produced by that situation is like no other rhythm.

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01018-19 cd

david tudor “music for piano” double compact disc set

  • john cage - music for piano 27 (7:50)
  • john cage - music for piano 22, 21, 32, 36 (8:47)
  • john cage - music for piano 27, 21, 32, 36 (10:18)
  • john cage - variations i (2:21)
  • christian wolff - duo for pianists i (4:13)
  • christian wolff - duo for pianists i, version 1957 ii (4:35)
  • sylvano bussotti - piano piece for david tudor iii (7:25)
  • john cage - winter music (5:10)
  • morton feldman - piece for four pianos (7:31)

  • john cage - variations ii 1961 (26:53)
  • john cage - music for piano 27, 21, 32, 35, 36  1955 (hr 1959) (12:27)
  • john cage - music for piano 21, 22, 26, 29, 34, 36  1955 (wdr 1959) (13:19)
  • christian wolff - duo for pianists i  1957, version 2 (dr 1963) (10:26)
  • david tudor - o-ton (dr 1963) (1:50)
2007 release ; ... well-organized collection of tudor’s realizations of solo piano repertoire by cage, bussotti, feldman, and wolff (including his gratifyingly gnarly, feedback-oriented performance of cage’s “variations ii” from 1961 - listen to the sound-sample) ...
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ed. rz 1018-19 2cd
david tudor: music for piano

2-cd set with recordings by the legendary 20th century avantgarde pianist. with compositions by sylvano bussotti, john cage, morton feldman, christian wolff.

david tudor, pianist - a profession, a vocation, a life. from 1950 until around 1965, david tudor was the epitome of the pianist who could simply play anything. in fact, david tudor was no longer a name, but an indication for instrumentation as dozens of pieces were written "for david tudor".

as early as 1960, after having conquered all of the challenges posed by serial piano music, tudor began to differentiate between composers who filled him with life and those who left him cold - the focus of his repertory became crystallized. the main criterion for his choices were shaped by the part he would play as interpreter in the composition. he distinguished carefully between having a free choice among prefabricated parts - generally called aleatoric, as for example, stockhausen's klavierstück xi (dedicated, as his klavierstücke v-viii, to tudor) - and indeterminate actions. in the first case, they have a tendency to "put me to sleep", whereby pieces that are less limiting led him to say, "i feel that i'm alive in every part of my consciousness".

the program of these cds portrays these distinctions.

[ frank hilberg ]

john cage: music for piano 27...  1955 (dr 1958) [ john cage / david tudor · pianos, 7'49'' ]

john cage: music for piano 22, 21, 26, 36  1955 (ndr 1956) [ david tudor · piano, 8'46'' ]

john cage: music for piano 27, 21, 32, 36  1955 (rb 1959) [ david tudor · piano, 10'17'' ]

john cage: variations i  1958 (dr 1958) [ john cage / david tudor · pianos, 2'20'' ]

christian wolff: duo for pianists i  1957, version 1 (rb 1960) [ john cage, david tudor · klaviere, 4'12'' ]

christian wolff: duo for pianists i  1957, version 2 (rb 1960) [ john cage, david tudor · klaviere, 4'35'' ]

sylvano bussotti: piano piece for david tudor iii 1959 (rb 1959) [ david tudor · klavier, 7'25'' ]

john cage: winter music  1957 (wdr 1957) [ john cage / david tudor · klaviere, 5'10'']

morton feldman: piece for four pianos  1957 (columbia 1959) [ david tudor, russell sherman, edwin hymovitz, morton feldman · klaviere, 7'36'' ]

john cage: varitations ii  1961 (sony music 1967) [ david tudor · klavier, 26'52'' ]

john cage: music for piano 27, 21, 32, 35, 36  1955 (hr 1959) [ david tudor · klavier, 12'26'' ]

john cage: music for piano 21, 22, 26, 29, 34, 36  1955 (wdr 1959) [ david tudor · klavier, 13'18'' ]

christian wolff: duo for pianists i  1957, version 2 (dr 1963) [ john cage, david tudor · klaviere, 10'26'' ]

david tudor o-ton  (dr 1963, 1'50'')

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01011-12 cd

franco evangelisti “franco evangelisti (1926-80)” double compact disc set

  • proieziono sonore, strutte per pioano solo (3:40) 1955-56
  • inconti di fasce sonore, composizione elettronica (3:27) 1956-57
  • aleatorio, per quartetto per flauto solo, 1958 (2:50) 1959
  • spazio a 5, per quattro di percussioni, voci e accorgimenti elettronici (13:07) 1959-61
  • random or not random, per orchestra (8:18) 1957-62
  • cinque strutture, per piccola orchestra e nastro magnetico dalla >>die schachtel<< (16:59) 1962-63
  • proporzioni, strutture per flauto solo (4:35) 1958

  • proiezioni sonore, strutture per piano solo (4:46) 1954-55
  • proporzioni, strutture per flauto solo (5:51) 1958
  • aleatorio, per quartetto d'archi (3:50) 1959
  • quattro fattoriale (4!), piccoli pezzi per pianoforte e violino (3:53) 1954
  • ordini, strutture variate per sedici strumenti (6:59) 1959
  • campi integrati n.2, giuoco per nove strumenti (6:41) 1959-79
  • die schachtel, azione mimoscenica per mimi, proiezioni, orchestera da camera su soggetto di franco nonnis (31:39) 1962-63
1998 release ; ... extensive double-disc overview of il gruppo member franco evangelisti’s compositions, including the 50’s tape piece “inconti di fasce sonore”, “cinque strutture” (for orchestra & a rather bleepy tape), & “spazio” (for 4 groups of percussionists & “electronic devices”) ...
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ed. rz 1011/12 2cd
franco evangelisti (1926-80)

proiezioni sonore, incontri di fasce sonore, aleatorio, spazio a 5, random or not random, cinque strutture, proiezioni sonore, proporzioni, aleatorio, 4!, ordini, campi integrati n. 2, die schachtel

proiezioni sonore, strutture per piano solo (aloys kontarsky)

incontri di fasce sonore, composizione elettronica

aleatorio per quartetto d'archi (società cameristica italiana)

spazio a 5 per quattro gruppi di percussioni, voci e accorgimenti elettronici (unknown artists)

random or not random per orchestra (orchestra sinfonica siciliana)

cinque strutture per piccola orchestra e nastro magnetico dalla "die schachtel" (orchestra della vi settimana di palermo, ltg. giampiero taverna)

proiezioni sonore, strutture per piano solo (david tudor)

proporzioni, strutture per flauto solo (eberhard blum)

aleatorio per quartetto d'archi (lasalle quartet)

4!, poccoli pezzi per pianoforte e violino (aloys kontarsky, wolfgang marschner)

ordini, strutture variate per sedici strumenti (ensemble strumentale da camera)

campi integrati n. 2, giuoco per nove strumenti (gruppo spettro sonoro, ltg. luca pfaff)

die schachtel, azione mimoscenica per mimi, proiezioni, orchestra da camera su soggetto di franco nonnis (anonymous speakers, ensemble of the orchestra of the münchener kammeroper, ltg. eberhard schoener)

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edition rz (germany) #rz 01010 cd

morton feldman “morton feldman (1926-87)” compact disc

  • piano three hands (8:03) 1957
  • intermission 5 (3:52) 1952
  • vertical thoughts 2 (6:49) 1963
  • extensions (8:05) 1952
  • four instruments (8:12) 1975
  • intermission 5 (2:11) 1952
  • piano piece 1956 a (2:23) 1956
  • piano piece 1956 b (3:07) 1956
  • intersection 3 (3:08) 1953
  • instruments 1 (24:16) 1974
1994 release ; ... an excellent cross-section of morton feldman’s compositional work, cut between early / formative pieces (dating back to the early 50’s) & those from the mid-late 70’s ...

includes performances by david tudor, amm’s john tilbury, cornelius cardew, joseph kubera, eberhard blum, jan williams, garrett list, and feldman himself ...
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ed. rz 1010 cd
morton feldman (1926 - 87)
piano three hands, intermission 5, vertical thoughts 2, extensions 3, four instruments, intermission 5, piano piece 1956 a + b, intersection 3, instruments 1
piano three hands (m. feldman + j. tilbury)

intermission 5 (m. feldman)

vertical thoughts 2 (c. cardew, j. négyesy)

extensions 3 (m. feldman)

four instruments (cantilena chamber players)

intermission 5 (d. tudor)

piano piece 1956 a + b (d. tudor)

intersection 3 (d. tudor)

instruments 1 (e. blum, n. post, g. list, j. williams, j. kubera)

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new world (usa) #nw 80651 cd

david tudor / gordon mumma “gordon mumma & david tudor” compact disc

  • david tudor rainforest (1968) 20:10
  • gordon mumma very small size mograph (1962) 0:26
  • gordon mumma small size mograph (1964) 2:09
  • gordon mumma gestures ii section x (1961) 0:23
  • gordon mumma gestures ii section 7 (1960) 0:53
  • gordon mumma medium size mograph (1964) 6:04
  • gordon mumma very small size mograph (1963) 0:15
  • gordon mumma very small size mograph (1962) 0:27
  • david tudor rainforest (1969) 41:35
  • gordon mumma song without words (1996) 3:06
one of the last missing corner-pieces of the historical live-electronic-music / circuit-bending puzzle has long been the recording of david tudor’s “rainforest i” - thankfully new world have reissued here not one but two different performances of the piece (one in rio de janeiro, 1968, the other at cornell, 1969.)

any sentient soul interested in the roots of contemporary electronic squawk/chirrup will see the release of this disc as a blessed event. highest recommendation.
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david tudor: rainforest

gordon mumma: 4 mographs, 2 sections from gestures ii, and song without words

david tudor and gordon mumma, keyboards and electronics

this historic recording features the first-ever release of the two earliest surviving recordings of david tudor’s seminal work, rainforest. sandwiched in between are six keyboard works by gordon mumma in recordings featuring the composer and his close collaborator, tudor. together, these works constitute a fascinating and historically important document of the 1960s avant-garde in america.

in early 1968, merce cunningham created a new dance whose apparent impetus was colin turnbull’s the forest people, with its account of life among the mbuti pygmies of the ituri forest in zaire. for the music, cunningham turned to tudor and for the first time asked him for an original work. when he learned that the dance was to be called rainforest, tudor said, “oh, then i’ll put a lot of raindrops in it.” raindrops were just the beginning: using audio transducers originally designed by the navy for hearing under and above water simultaneously—eight small objects programmed with signals from sound generators, phonograph cartridges, and two sets of speakers—tudor created a world of sound in perpetual but unpredictable motion, a steady state at once abstract and evocative. the first recording, made from the teatro novo orchestra pit on july 30, is an excellent document of the sound character of tudor’s rainforest work when it was performed with the cunningham dance company in those early years.

the second recording documents the first concert performance of rainforest, in march 1969, several months after the rio de janeiro dance performance. the venue was a large conference space at cornell university, ithaca, new york. the equipment was set on tables in the center of the space, with the audience seated around the performers. four separate channels of sound were used and widely spaced, with two in the foreground and two in the background. the sound sources had also expanded from the earlier cunningham performances, with tudor now adding recordings of small sounds from insects and birds, in conjunction with the previous electronic sounds, all modified by his acoustical resonant devices. the interactive circuitry was fundamentally the same as previously, but expanded with new devices and interactive connections.

gordon mumma’s gestures ii and the mographs are two sets of pieces for two pianists, composed between 1958 and 1964. during the 1960s robert ashley and gordon mumma toured with their concerts of new music for two pianos, including parts of gestures ii and some of the mographs. later, some of these two works were performed in recording experiments by mumma and david tudor. two sections from the mumma and tudor recordings, x and 7, are presented on this cd. each of the eleven completed mographs includes the year of composition in its title. the first two words of each title indicate the general length of that particular composition, ranging from very small size mograph 1962 to the only solo piece, large size mograph 1962. the structure and activities of each mograph were derived from seismographic recorded p-waves and s-waves of earthquakes and underground nuclear explosions. these seismograph patterns were part of 1960s cold-war research that attempted to verify the differences between their seismic disturbance sources.

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new world (usa) #nw 80555 cd

richard maxfield / harold budd “the oak of the golden dreams” compact disc

  • richard maxfield - pastoral symphony (4:03) 1960
  • richard maxfield - bacchanale (8:14) 1963
  • richard maxfield - piano concert for david tudor (12:29) 1961
  • richard maxfield - amazing grace (3:26) 1960

  • harold budd - the oak of the golden dreams (18:44) 1970
  • harold budd - coeur d’orr (19:46) 1969
for the longest time i couldn’t figure why exactly these two sets of pieces by two very different composers were bashed into the same 1/0 stream ... until i recently heard the tale of lamonte “milk ‘em” young’s ownership of dick maxfield’s oeuvre ... and the insane price he has asked of new world for the (temporary!) licensing of maxfield’s music for this release, resulting in the producers-in-question adding the harold budd material to the proceedings in attempts to break even on the whole affair (both sets of music were initally released in the lp-era by the advance label, originals of the maxfield at least fetch a pretty penny). which kind of justifies it... but still...

the maxfield pieces herein are incredibly sharp (previously i’d only read about them in the great george maciunas remembrance-guide mr. fluxus wherein someone, probably joe jones, recounts a concert at lamonte young’s new york art-space in the early 60s of maxfield’s music) - ranging from tight, analogue-synth-based tape constructs (“pastoral sympony”), kind-of beatnik tape pieces (“bacchanale,” performed by an ensemble including terry jennings...), musique concrète piece sinvolving some serious inside-piano scraping (“piano concert for david tudor,” piano c/o its namesake...), and short, almost plunderphonic-feeling jump-cuts (”amazing grace”)...

i had only known budd as an eno-sympathizer/collaborator, so hearing the terry riley-esque buchla-workout that is “oak of the golden dreams” is kind of an earful... but then the... terry riley-esque “coeur d’orr” kind of hurts my head/feelings a little bit with its longing soprano sax lines & organ pedal tones...

even still, one of the better discs on new world (a catalogue already rife with gems...) - very much worth it for the maxfield material alone...
new world press release...
richard maxfield: pastoral symphony , bacchanale, piano concert for david tudor, amazing grace

harold budd: the oak of the golden dreams, coeur d’orr

david tudor, piano
terry jennings, saxophone
edward fields, narration
fahrad machkat, violin
robert block; prepared violin
nicholas roussakis, underwater clarinet
harold budd, buchla electronic music system
charles oreña, soprano sax

this timely cd reissue combines two lps from the advance label — richard maxfield’s electronic music and harold budd’s the oak of the golden dreams — both containing seminal works which are key to a better understanding of the musical landscape of the sixties as well as the origins of minimalism.

a mostly forgotten figure, richard maxfield (1927-69) exerted a powerful influence over a broad range of composers through his classes at the new school. the works here predate the minimalist movement while forecasting a wide range of developments in the future of electronic work. the prophetic pastoral symphony (1960) is composed of continuously generated electronic tones while bacchanale (1963) is a musique concrète collage juxtaposing jazz with korean folk music, spoken word, and various instrumental contributions including terry jennings on saxophone. piano concert for david tudor (1961) draws its multifarious noises from a single source — antedating in that respect stockhausen’s mikrophonie i for amplified tam-tam (1964). tudor plays live alongside a three-channel montage constructed from sounds made on the inside of the piano with chains, spinning a gyroscope on the strings, showering the strings with tiddlywink discs, and other unusual operations. amazing grace (1960) mixes tape loops from two sources which are played back at various speeds, causing the fragments to overlap in complex ways, predating both riley’s and reich’s tape-loop pieces. if the maxfield pieces represent the state of new music in the months before minimalism was born, harold budd’s (b. 1936) works from 1970 reflect minimalism’s initial impact. the oak of the golden dreams was made on the buchla box which budd uses here as an electric organ capable of the kind of fast modal improv, over an unchanging e-flat drone, that terry riley and la monte young had been doing on saxophone and piano. coeur d’orr features a soprano sax improv against an electronic background on organ comprised of two tracks, one of which is another 1970 budd work, the famous candy apple revision.

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new world (usa) #nw 80540 cd

david tudor / john cage “rainforest ii & mureau” double compact disc set

  • rainforest ii / mureau (43:02)
  • rainforest ii / mureau (continued) (51:17)
premiere of this recording of the simultaneous performance of david tudor’s rainforest ii and john cage’s mureau by the composers themselves.
new world press release...
this historic release of a simultaneous performance by david tudor and john cage of rainforest ii and mureau, recorded live by radio bremen on may 5, 1972, preserves the only surviving performance of the second of tudor’s "rainforest" series. in addition, it documents one of the precious few recorded collaborations between these two visionaries. in 1970 cage composed the piece called mureau, in which phrases from thoreau’s journals (in particular, passages which touch on the subject of music) are used as the springboard for an elaborate collage. the resultant fabric combines elements of sense and nonsense, as it veers between contextual meaning and a sort of abstract, linguistic vocalise. in cage’s public readings of mureau, he explored a number of performance variables—differences in tempo, vocal timbre, pitch, register, and dynamics. a similar range will be apparent, in fact, when listening to this recorded performance. this simultaneous performance of mureau and rainforest ii took place in a large concert hall before an audience, rather than privately in a recording studio. whereas in other performance realizations (such as their legendary indeterminacy collaboration) the two men had been placed in separate isolation booths, here the two shared the same performance space, so that each could hear and see the other person’s activity. in fact, cage and tudor sat quite close to one another at the center of the stage, cage performing mureau as a four-channel realization—one live channel against three pre-recorded tracks, all of them his own voice—and tudor actively engaged in real-time processing of cage’s vocal material, using it to generate electronic loudspeaker-filter events.

essential listening for anyone interested in the work of either composer.

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 best of 2010 !!! 
new world (usa) #nw 80712 cd

“music for merce (1952-2009)” decuple compact disc set

  • christian wolff - for magnetic tape (1952) [pt. 1 of 4] (5:24)
  • christian wolff - for piano i (1952) (5:19)
  • john cage - music for piano 1–20 (1954) (16:13)
  • earle brown - indices (1955) [excerpt] (20:51)
  • bo nilsson - quantitäten (1958) (12:31)

  • morton feldman - ixion (1958) (20:21)
  • john cage - variations v (1965) [excerpt] (13:41)
  • gordon mumma - mesa (1966) (19:38)
  • toshi ichiyanagi - activities for orchestra (1962) (24:09)

  • david behrman - … for nearly an hour… (1968) [excerpt] (3:23)
  • pauline oliveros - in memoriam: nikola tesla, cosmic engineer (1969) [excerpt] (9:44)
  • christian wolff - for 1, 2, or 3 people (1964) [excerpt] (12:07)
  • christian wolff - burdocks (1971) [excerpt] (16:59)
  • john cage, gordon mumma, david tudor - /3 (1972) [excerpt] (16:39)
  • gordon mumma - telepos (1972) (18:27)

  • david tudor - toneburst (1975) (17:45)
  • takehisa kosugi - s.e. wave/e.w. song (1976) [excerpt] (13:03)
  • maryanne amacher - remainder (1976) [excerpt] (14:55)
  • jon gibson - equal distribution (1977) [excerpt] (12:14)
  • john cage - inlets (1977) [excerpt] (10:17)

  • david tudor - weatherings (1978) [excerpt] (14:54)
  • yasunao tone - geography and music (1979) [excerpt] (21:18)
  • david tudor - phonemes (1981) [excerpt] (14:00)
  • david tudor - sextet for seven (1982) (18:15)

  • takehisa kosugi - spacings (1984) (23:52)
  • john king - gliss in sighs (1985) (16:19)
  • john cage - voiceless essay (1986) [excerpt] (10:58)
  • david tudor - webwork (1987) [excerpt] (10:46)
  • michael pugliese - peace talks (1989) [excerpt] (11:44)

  • takehisa kosugi - spectra (1989) (20:29)
  • john cage - sculptures musicales (1989) [excerpt] (12:14)
  • david tudor - virtual focus (1990) [excerpt] (15:15)
  • john cage - four3 (1991) [excerpt] (15:24)
  • david tudor - neural network plus (1992) [excerpt] (13:28)

  • john king - blues ’99 (1993) [excerpt] (19:10)
  • stuart dempster - underground overlays (1995) [excerpt] (15:22)
  • john cage - four6 (1992) [excerpt] (11:17)
  • takehisa kosugi - wave code a–z (1997) [excerpt] (14:42)
  • christian wolff - or 4 people (1994) [excerpt] (6:16)

  • john cage - and one8 (1991) [excerpt] (14:18)
  • john king - longtermparking (2002) [excerpt] (15:31)
  • david behrman - long throw (2007) [excerpt] (18:25)
  • annea lockwood - jitterbug (2007) [excerpt] (20:19)

  • event - february 16, 1993, red wing, minnesota (5:58)
  • event - september 14, 1996, annemasse, france (5:53)
  • event - june 5, 1997, frankfurt (7:30)
  • event - september 12, 1998, minneapolis (5:22)
  • event - september 29, 2002, oslo (4:12)
  • event - october 30, 2002, munich (6:51)
  • event - december 14, 2004, new york city (3:54)
  • event - december 15, 2004, new york city (6:56)
  • event - december 18, 2004, new york city (6:35)
  • event - june 14, 2005, london (5:21)
  • event - june 17, 2005, london (8:44)
december 2010 release ; just incredible ...

inside this mammoth, 10-disc behemoth lies a veritable king’s ransom of largely otherwise un-issued pieces, all composed for merce cunningham’s dance company, performed by a who’s who of 20th century experimental & electronic music ...

... before you balk at the price, let me point out just some of the contents ::

an absolute treasure-trove of archival david tudor material(s), ranging from his premiere of christian wolff’s “for piano i” in 1952 & his performance of piano pieces by earle brown, bo nilsson, & morton feldman ... through his “jerry-rigged” electronic work with john cage, gordon mumma, malcolm goldstein, max neuhaus, toshi ichiyanagi, pauline oliveros ... and finally his 80’s & 90’s solo live electronic pieces ...

an otherwise never-released recording of takehisa kosugi playing a “catch-wave” lineage piece in 1976, plus three other unreleased live-electronic pieces from the 80’s & 90’s, all of which are insane (listen to the sound-sample for one of the 80’s one ; an “automated” bleep-out par excellence) ...

unheard 70’s & 80’s compositions by maryanne amacher, jon gibson, yasunao tone, john king, michael pugliese, and annea lockwood ... along with several ensemble pieces from the 90’s with jim o’rourke & folks like stuart dempster, kosugi, paul de marinis, and company ... and a disc of “events” featuring folks like christian marclay, ikue mori, george lewis, steve lacy ... and oddly, led zeppelin’s john paul jones & radiohead drummer phil selway ...

... comes as a nice, matte cd-box (similar form-factor as the “music from the once festival” set) with a pull-ribbon, all ten discs (housed in five single-wide double-cases) & a 120-page book offering a succinct history of the cunningham company’s involvement with all of this essential stuff, plus tons of key photos of the happenings & dance-events documented herein ...

easily my single favorite release of 2010 ; highest conceivable recommendation !!!
new world press release...

composer(s): christian wolff, john cage, earle brown, bo nilsson, morton feldman, gordon mumma, toshi ichiyanagi, david behrman, pauline oliveros, david tudor, takehisa kosugi, maryanne amacher, jon gibson, yasunao tone, john king, michael pugliese, stuart dempster, annea lockwood
album title: music for merce (1952-2009) 
cat. no.: 80712 (10 cds)
genre: classical / contemporary
release date: 12/2010

 the late merce cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. particularly notable is his association with john cage, who served as the founding musical director of the merce cunningham dance company until cage’s death in 1992.

spanning six decades from the early 1950s onward, these recordings capture the breadth of the cunningham repertory and the rich diversity of cunningham’s musical collaborations. composers whose work features prominently in this collection include seminal figures of late-20th-century experimental music such as john cage, david tudor, gordon mumma, christian wolff, and takehisa kosugi, among others.

for the most part, these compositions have not been recorded elsewhere and are making their first appearance on cd. this is a document of enormous historical import that will be a revelation to both listeners and scholars interested in the evolution of american experimental music over the past five decades. also included is a 124-page booklet featuring a 15,000-word essay by amy beal, one of the foremost scholars of contemporary american music. 


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