| Contents |
Preface. Source in the cause of new music / Douglas Kahn -- Introduction. Larry Austin on Source, from an interview with Douglas Kahn -- Issue no. 1. Quel che volete / Giuseppe Chiari -- In memoriam Esteban Gomez (quartet) ; In memoriam John Smith (concerto) ; In memoriam Crazy Horse (symphony) ; In memoriam Kit Carson (opera) / Robert Ashley -- Form in new music / Earle Brown -- Lecture / Harry Partch -- And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma / Harry Partch -- Conversation / Robert Ashley, Larry Austin, and Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Issue no. 2 Is the composer anonymous? / Editors -- Appearance, for 3 instruments, 2 oscillators, 2 ring modulators / Toshi Ichiyanagi -- Conversations without Stravinsky / Morton Feldman -- 4'33" ; Plus correspondence and telephone conversation with the editor / John Cage -- Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer / Gordon Mumma -- Sur (Doctor) John Dee and Tabulatura Soyga / Jerry Hunt -- Issue no. 3. Groups section / Larry Austin, Stanley Lunetta, John Mizelle, and Arthur Woodbury. Sonic arts group / Gordon Mumma and Larry Austin ; The ONCE group / Robert Ashley ; WORDS / Musica Elettronica Viva -- Wave Train / David Behrman -- First festival of live-electronic music 1967 / Will Johnson -- Radical Energy I / John Mizelle -- Plan for Spacecraft / Frederic Rzewski -- Some sound observations / Pauline Oliveros -- Titus Number 1 for amplified automobile -- Comment / Editors -- Issue no. 4. The Wolfman / Robert Ashley -- HPSCHD / John Cage and Lejaren Hiller -- Accidents / Larry Austin -- Issue no. 5. Glass Concert 2 / Anna (Annea) Lockwood -- Edges / Christian Wolff -- Boredom and danger / Dick Higgins -- Spider-Song / Stanley Lunetta -- A Max sampler: six sound oriented pieces for situations other than that of the concert hall / Max Neuhaus -- Events/comments / Larry Austin -- Issue no. 6. The Thousand Symphonies / Dick Higgins -- Anti-Personnel Bomb / Philip Corner -- Events/Comment: is new music being used for political or social ends? / Editors and respondents -- Street Music and Symphony / Frederic Rzewski -- Issue no. 7. Plexigram IV: Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel / John Cage and Clavin Sumsion. Not wanting to say anything about Marcel / Barbara Rose -- MEWANTEMOOSEICDAY: John Cage in Davis, 1969 / John Dinwiddie -- Towards the '70s / Dick Higgins -- Velox / Arthur Woodbury -- The Indefinite Integral of Psi Star Psi d Tau Equals One / Pauline Oliveros -- Phlegethon / Mark Riener -- "I am sitting in a room" and Vespers / Alvin Lucier -- How to cook an albatross / Ben Johnston -- Polinteracoes / Jocy De Oliveiera -- Issue no. 8. Fylkingen / Sven Hansell and Harvey Matusow. Mr. Smith in Rhodesia / Ake Hodell ; Chamber Music / Bob Cobbing ; Rundscheibe XIII / Ferdinand Kriwet -- Audio/video/laser / Lowell Cross -- Boola boola / Morton Feldman -- Caritas and Transmission One / Larry Austin -- Moosack machine / Stanley Lunetta -- Sea Fever / Peter Garland -- Editorial / Larry Austin -- Issue no. 9. Noise abatement resolution / David Rosenboom -- Piano Burning and Tiger Balm / Anna (Annea) Lockwood -- Fur Music / Nelson Howe -- Mobius Strip-Tease / Nicolas Slonimsky -- Events/Comments / Stanley Lunetta. On the desirability of distinguishing between sound and structure / Donald Buchla -- International Carnival of experimental sound / Editors -- Issue no. 10. Gentle Fire and Queen of the South / Alvin Lucier -- Naked software. Naked software: 12-cassette spatial sound system / Harvey Matusow ; River Archive / Anna (Annea) Lockwood ; Project: International Concert of Public Noise / John Lifton ; Interface 3A / John Lifton -- Exhibition on 3 Hills / Stuart Marshall -- "Music as a gradual process" and Pendulum Music / Steve Reich -- 8KN-(J-6):1:R[superscript]10 / Anthony Braxton -- The Great Learning / Cornelius Cardew -- The scratch orchestra: draft constitution / Cornelius Cardew -- Land mass Translocation / George Brecht -- The Friesian Cow / Christopher Hobbs -- Portsmouth sinfonia / a.d.r. -- Verbal Pieces / Gavin Bryars -- Sonic Meditations / Pauline Oliveros -- Issue no. 11. Editorial / Ken Friedman and Stanley Lunetta. International Sources: notes on the exhibition / Ken Friedman -- NYCS Weekly Breeder / Ken Friedman -- Water Whistle / Max Neuhaus -- Telepathic Music / Robert Filliou -- New York Corres-Sponge dance school of Vancouver / Image Bank -- "My symphonies" and "New ontology of music" / Nam June Paik -- xvurt and bcuhla / Charles Amirkhanian -- Chromatic tree harp / John Paul Rhinehart and Stanley Marsh 3 -- Appendix: complete contents of Source. |
| Abstract |
This book 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, this book 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Other title |
Source (Sacramento, Calif.) |
| LCCN | 2010001039 |
| ISBN | 9780520257481 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520257480 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520267459 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520267451 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
