Source. Music Of The Avant-garde, 1968-1973

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Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011 — 401 p. — ISBN 978-0-520-25748-1; ISBN 978-0-520-26745-9.<em>Source: music of the avant garde was a beautifully produced publication of new music scores, essays by composers and artists, statements, interviews, artworks, sound and concrete poems, photo essays, circuit diagrams, instrument designs, event reports, documents, and LP recordings. It appeared in eleven large-format issues from 1967 to 1973, semiannually in runs of two thousand copies, and became internationally known among all those interested in new music and related arts at the time. It is now an invaluable historical document—from an exciting period in the arts, technology, culture, and politics—for what is loosely called experimental music, new music, electronic music, and related developments in poetry, visual arts, and intermedia. It may perhaps be the best source, literally, of materials and chronicling of concerns from a period that grows increasingly relevant with each succeeding generation of musicians, artists, media artists, audiences, students, and aficionados. The founding editor and driving force of <em>Source, Larry Austin, and I offer this book to you as both a selection of historical documents from <em>Source and a historical document of <em>Source itself. We also offer it in the spirit of the efforts of the original editors and contributors, which were directed first and foremost toward communities of contemporary composers, performers, and artists.<strong>ContentsPreface: Source in the Cause of New MusicIntroduction: Larry Austin on Source: Music of the Avant GardeThe Editors PrefaceLetter to the EditorForm in New MusicLectureAnd on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma (excerpts)ConversationThe Editors: Is the Composer Anonymous?Appearance, for 3 Instruments, 2 Oscillators, 2 Ring Modulators (Excerpt)Conversations Without Stravinsky4'33"Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer 1965Sur (Doctor) John Dee and Tabulatura SoygaGroups SectionWave TrainFirst Festival of Live-Electronic Music 1967Radial Energy I (Excerpt)Plan for SpacecraftSome Sound ObservationsTitus Number 1 for Amplified AutomobileThe Editors: CommentThe Wolfman for amplified voice and tapeHPSCHDAccidentsGlass Concert 2EdgesBoredom and DangerSpider-SongA Max Sampler: Six Sound Oriented Pieces for Situations Other Than That of the Concert Hall (1966-68)Events/CommentsThe Thousand SymphoniesAnti-Personnel BombEvents/Comments Is New Music Being Used for Political or Social Ends?Enantiodromia (Excerpt)Street Music and SymphonyPlexigram IV: Not Wanting to Say Anything about MarcelMEWANTEMOOSEICDAY: John Cage in Davis, 1969Towards the 70sVeloxThe Indefinite Integral of Psi Star Psi d Tau Equals OnePhlegethon"I am sitting in a room" and VespersHow to Cook an AlbatrossPolinteraçõesFylkingen1970Audio/Video/Laser (Excerpt)Boola BoolaCaritas and Transmission OneMoosack MachineSea FeverEditorialNoise Abatement ResolutionPiano Burning and Tiger BalmFur Music (excerpt)Möbius Strip-TeaseEvents/CommentsOn the Desirability of Distinguishing Between Sound and StructureThe Editors of Source Announce the International Carnival of Experimental SoundGentle Fire and Queen of the SouthNaked SoftwareExhibition on 3 Hills"Music as a Gradual Process" and Pendulum Music8KN - (J-6) I RThe Great Learning (Excerpt)The Scratch Orchestra: Draft ConstitutionLa