Contents
Prefaces
- Pauline Oliveros: Poet of Electronic Music
- James Tenney: The Eloquent Voice of Nature
Interviews with Douglas Simon
- “. . . to let alpha be itself”. Music for Solo Performer
- “. . . and listen to the ocean again”. Chambers
- Taking Slow Audio Photographs of the Space. Vespers
- “Every room has its own melody”. “I am sitting in a room”
- Imitating One Set of Sounds with Another. (Hartford) Memory Space
- A Metaphor for One’s Life. Quasimodo the Great Lover
- Composite Identities. The Duke of York
- Imaginary Imagery. Gentle Fire
- Seeing Sound. The Queen of the South, Tyndall Orchestrations
- Making Audible That Which Is Inaudible. Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
- “Do you know how robins turn their heads to listen?” Outlines of Persons and Things, Bird and Person Dyning
- The Poetry of Science. Music on a Long Thin Wire
- Sound Shadows. Directions of Sounds from the Bridge
Interviews with Daniel Wolf
- “The gods appear out of nowhere”. Crossings, Nothing is Real
- “The sound melts into the environment”. Fragments for Strings, Navigations for Strings
- “The simple is the difficult”. Panorama, Six Geometries
Conversations
- “Creating a new kind of a music for me” (Barney Childs)
- “. . . when you stutter, you scan the language” (Walter Zimmermann)
- “With and without a purpose” (Robert Ashley)
- “Discovery is part of the experience” (William Duckworth)
- “I’m cutting things down to their simplest form” (James Tenney)
- “The form of the piece is a search” (Arne Deforce)
- “You never know what’s going to happen” (James Saunders)
About Own Work
- Music for Solo Performer 1965
- The Making of North American Time Capsule
- Program Proposal for Pepsi-Cola Pavilion
- The Propagation of Sound in Space
- The Tools of My Trade
- Clocker
- Sferics
- Seesaw
- Wall with Vertical Slit
- Sound on Paper
- Pasta for Tired Dancers
- Thoughts on Installations
- Skin, Meat, Bone
- String Quartets
- Origins of a Form
- My Affairs with Feedback
- Fruits and Vegetables
About Others
- A Letter to Frederic Rzewski
- An Open Letter to the Artistic Director of the Ojai Music Festival
- I Remember Morty
- Collaborations with John Cage
- Soba
- The Sonic Arts Union
- Avant-garde and Experiment
- The Future of Our Music
- Preface to Robert Ashley’s book Outside of Time
- Notes on Verbal Notation
- The Local is the Universal
- In Memoriam David Tudor, Robert Ashley, Reinhard Oehlschlägel, Pauline Oliveros
Scores
- Music for Solo Performer
- Shelter
- Chambers
- Vespers
- The Only Talking Machine of Its Kind in the World
- “I am sitting in a room”
- (Hartford) Memory Space
- Hymn
- Quasimodo the Great Lover
- The Duke of York
- Gentle Fire
- The Queen of the South
- Tyndall Orchestrations
- Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
- Outlines of Persons and Things
- Bird and Person Dyning
- Music on a Long Thin Wire
- Directions of Sounds from the Bridge
- Ghosts
- Words on Windy Corners
- Lullaby
- Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums
- Risonanza
- Precious Metals
- Attaché Case
- Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra
- Carbon Copies
- Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillators and One or More Reflective Surfaces
- Indian Summer
- Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases
- Music for Piano with Half-closed Lid
- Empty Vessels
Program and Liner Notes
- Partita, Fragments for Strings, Action Music
- Music for Solo Performer
- Vespers
- (Hartford) Memory Space
- “I am sitting in a room”
- Quasimodo the Great Lover
- The Queen of the South
- RMSIM 1
- Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
- Bird and Person Dyning
- Music on a Long Thin Wire
- Shapes of the Sounds from the Board
- Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums
- Sferics
- Crossings
- Seesaw
- Spinner
- In Memoriam Jon Higgins
- Serenade (1985)
- Septet
- Homage to James Tenney
- Kettles
- Fideliotrio
- Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra
- Self-Portrait
- Nothing Is Real
- Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels
- Amplifier and Reflector One
- Navigations for Strings
- Possible Time and Motion Reversals
- Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums
- Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators
- Six Geometries
- Sol 432
- StacksMusic for Piano with Half-closed Lid
- In Memoriam Stuart Marshall
- Serenade (1993)
- Panorama
- Serenade (1994)
- Wind Shadows, Distant Drums, Music for Gamelan Instruments Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers
- Disappearances
- The Sacred Fox
- Spira Mirabilis
- Spider Paths
- Two Stones
- Unamuno
- Night Sounds with Flame
- Sierpinski Lines
- Chinese Space
- Theme
- Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings
- Still Lives
- Sound on Glass
- Empty Vessels
- Small Waves
- Opera with Objects
- Wave Painting Songs
- Heavier than Air
- On a Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon
- Piper
- Ovals
- Almost New York
- Ever Present
- Charles Curtis
- Fan
- Tapper
- Coda Variations
- Man Ray
- Twonings
- Broken Line
- Bumps
- Slices
- Trio for Clarinet Cello and Six-valve Tuba
- Miniature
- ICEcles
- Check
- Two Circles
- Braid
- Codex
- Criss Cross
- Palimpsest
- Shadow Lines
- Orpheus Variations
- Hanover
- Gondola
- Audibles
- Love Song
- Sickle
- Double Helix
- V
- Flight Paths
- Tilted Arc
- Corner Church and High
- Monteverdi Shapero
- Halo, Bone Moon
- Arrigoni Bridge
- Flips
- Key West
- Three Cardboard Boxes
List of Works
Text Credits
Photo Credits
Index of Names
