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Partners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Partners

The amazing life of Jerry Hunt, Texan avant-garde composer, occultist and artist, with appearances from Pauline Oliveros, Karen Finlay and others Jerry Hunt (1943-93) was among the most eccentric figures in the word of new music. A frenetic orator, occultist and engineering consultant, his works from the 1970s through the early '90s made use of readymade sculptures, medical technology, arcane talismans and all manner of homemade electronic implements to form confrontational recordings and enigmatic, powerful performances. Tracing Hunt's life across his home state's major cities to a self-built house in rural Van Zandt County, this memoir-cum-biography by Stephen Housewright, Hunt's partner o...

Blank Forms 8
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Blank Forms 8

Archival documents and new writings on Texas-based composer, performer, and visual and video artist, Jerry Hunt. Jerry Hunt (1943-1993) was among the most eccentric figures in the word of late 20th century new music, sometimes described as a shamanic figure with the look of a "Central Texas meat inspector." His works combined video synthesis, early computers, and custom-made sensors with rough hewn sculptures, scores drawn from celestial alphabets, and homemade electronics activated by his signature wands and impassioned gestures. Hunt lived his entire in Texas, between Dallas, Waco, Houston, and Austin, eventually settling in a house he built himself ("an interactive environment") on a ranc...

Experimenting the Human
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

Experimenting the Human

  • Categories: Art

An engaging consideration of what experimental music can tell us about being human. In Experimenting the Human, G Douglas Barrett argues that experimental music speaks to the contemporary posthuman, a condition in which science and technology have challenged the centrality of the human amid the uneven temporality of postwar capitalism. Experimental music addresses this condition, Barrett contends, not by adhering to the formal strictures of musical modernism but by producing extra-formal meaning through its immanent transdisciplinary involvements with postwar science, technology, and art movements. Hear Alvin Lucier use his brain waves to play percussion. Picture Pamela Z sculpting the sound...

The Alcalde
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

The Alcalde

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 2007-11
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  • Publisher: Unknown

As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."

Live Electronics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Live Electronics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992-02-12
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Weir of Hermiston. The plays. Fables. v. 21. St. Ives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540
The Complete Works
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 9568

The Complete Works

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-01-06
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  • Publisher: Good Press

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.

Weir of Hermiston. The plays. Fables
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

Weir of Hermiston. The plays. Fables

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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