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CageTalk
John Cage was one of America's most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992. But he was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely attractive personality able to present his ideas engagingly wherever he went. As an interview subject he was a consummate professional. The main source of CageTalk: Dialogues with and about John Cage is a panoply of vivid and compulsively readable interviews given to Peter Dickinson in the late 1980s for a BBC Radio 3 documentary. The original BBC program lasted an hour, but the full discussions with Cage and many of the main figures connected with him were not published until the first edition of this book. CageTalk also includes ear...
On Minimalism
"Minimalism changed everything. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American composition. Hip, young listeners flocked to a genre that had long been insular and academic, packing concert halls and buying millions of records. But minimalism wasn't just a classical phenomenon: its static harmonies and groovy pulses swept through the avant-garde landscape, shaping the work of experimental mavens Yoko Ono and Brian Eno, radical improvisers John and Alice Coltrane, outre innovators Pauline Oliveros and Julius Eastman, and many others. This book provides a comprehensive, revisionist retelling of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. Featuring more than a hundred rare historical sources, On Minimalism moves from the style's origins in psychedelic counterculture through its arrival in the mainstream and into its present-day manifestations in doom metal and ambient jazz. O'Brien and Robin curate minimalism's history anew, documenting one of the most important musical movements of our time"--
Music After the Fall
Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post–Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media. Drawing connections with the other arts, in particular visual art and architecture, he expands the definition of Western art music to include forms of composition, experimental music, sound art, and crossover work from across the spectrum, inside and beyond the concert hall. Each chapter is a critical consideration of a wide range of composers, performers, works, and institutions, and develops a broad and rich picture of the new music ecosystem, from North American string quartets to Lebanese improvisers, from electroacoustic music studios in South America to ruined pianos in the Australian outback. Rutherford-Johnson puts forth a new approach to the study of contemporary music that relies less on taxonomies of style and technique than on the comparison of different responses to common themes of permission, fluidity, excess, and loss.
MusikDenken
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Der Klang der Gegenwart
Die Neue Musik ist nicht in einem Augenblick entstanden: Spätestens ab 1950 haben Komponisten sich mehrfach eine neue Tonkunst vorgestellt, in Manifesten, in ihren Lebenswegen und ihren Kompositionen realisiert und damit eine ganz eigene, extrem farbige Bewegung angestoßen. Also eine westliche Erfindung nur für Spezialisten? Weit gefehlt! Björn Gottstein beleuchtet das Phänomen von seinen Anfängen bis heute in all seinen Facetten. Die Geschichte der Neuen Musik wird dabei sondiert (immer wieder kommen einzelne Komponisten zu Wort, wird ihr spezifisches Werk vorgestellt), kuratiert (das Buch versucht nichts weniger als einen Gesamtüberblick) und strukturiert (was hängt wie womit zusammen?) – eine mitreißende, faszinierende musikalische Entdeckungsreise von einem begnadeten Erzähler und Kenner der Materie und ein Muss auch für den Fan Klassischer Musik.
Die Kunst der Dauer
Erhabenheit scheint ein angestaubtes ästhetisches Konzept zu sein. Doch Musik und Klangkunst konfrontieren uns seit dem 20. Jahrhundert mit Werken, in denen Stille und lange Dauern selbst zu überwältigenden Akteuren werden. Sonja Heyer entwickelt aus der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie und dem kritischen Posthumanismus das Konzept der transformativen Erhabenheit. Darin überlässt sich der Mensch nicht einer metaphysischen Ewigkeit, sondern wird Teil eines lebendigen ästhetischen Netzwerkes. Neben Werkanalysen dienen auch erstmalig veröffentlichte Interviews mit Mitgliedern der Komponistengruppe Wandelweiser der empirischen Fundierung dieser neuen Entwicklung in der zeitgenössischen Musik.
