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David Tudor is remembered today in two guises: as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His early realization of indeterminate graphic scores and his later performances using homemade modular instruments both inspired a whole generation of musicians. But his reticence, his unorthodox approaches, and the diversity of his creative output which began with the organ and ended with visual art have kept Tudor a puzzle. Illustrated with more than 300 images of diagrams, schematics, and photographs of Tudor's instruments, Reminded by the Instruments sets out ...
Charlie, a lonely Miami travel writer, takes a rockhounding journey to the northwestern Nevada wilderness to find solace after the death of Link, her writing partner. Alone in the vast Black Rock Desert, she has an “unexpected otherworldly visit” from Link, followed by a gift of two Clovis points that turn up in the white sands beneath her feet. Convinced that these arrowheads are conveying an important message, Charlie is drawn into a spiritual force which she follows into the world of the Dineh, and an adventure that is exciting, uplifting and at times dangerous. Meanwhile, Shash, a lonely Dineh elder traverses the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. With him, he carries his worn leather medicine pouch filled with all the right prayers to satisfy the spirits, to help him lead his family back to the old ways, to the beauty way.
In the 1960s and '70s, collaborations between artists and engineers led to groundbreaking innovations in multisensory performance art that continue to resonate today. In 1966, Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, engineers at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, teamed up with artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman to form a nonprofit organization, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). E.A.T.’s debut event, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, integrated art, theater, and groundbreaking technology in a series of performances at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan. Its second major event, the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan, presented a multisensory environment for th...
Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out--until it isn't. This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors explore the shifting role of the home as both a source and a mitigator of the terrors of this world, and the next. Well known films are covered--including Psycho, Get Out, Insidious: The Last Key and Winchester House--along with films produced outside the U.S. by directors such as Alejandro Amenabar (The Others), Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Orphanage), and often overlooked classics like Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger.
Focusing on a single work from the Arter Collection in each title, Arter Close-Up series continues its journey, following Sarkis’ iconic work Çaylak Sokak, with an in-depth look at the interactive installation Rainforest V (variation 3). Acquired for the collection in 2018, the work marks a significant turning point in contemporary art history. Drawing on the presentation of the work in Arter’s Karbon performance hall (10 September 2020–30 January 2022), the publication grows out of a conversation between Melih Fereli, Arter’s Founding Director and the exhibition’s curator, and John Driscoll & Phil Edelstein, highlighting the evolution of Rainforest, the collaborations cultivated ...
Argentinian composer and choreographer Ellen C. Covito has been gaining wide recognition in the recent years for her �Composed Improvisation� and �Improvised Composition� series. This book brings together for the first time all her major works along with theoretical essays that analyze her approach in depth and an exclusive interview with Covito herself. Edited and compiled by No Collective who has organized four concerts of Covito�s music and dance in New York, Tokyo and Berlin, this is the definitive overview on the output of one of the most radical artists working today.
The Sword Summoner: History Repeats is a fun, action-packed re-imagining of the fantasy genre based around a boy’s struggle to free his mother after his city is attacked by monsters who kill and enslave everyone within. Trey Sted is an ambitionless boy in his early teens who lives a boring life in a fantasy world that is quickly becoming a more ordered realm. When the city is attacked by monsters known as Forukks, only Trey, his friend Billy Delb and their insane classmate Zak Malma are able to escape. Determined to save his mother whatever the cost, Trey travels the land to the mighty city of Onlasar to rally support against the Forukks. During the journey they are pursued by Forukks, captured by desert tribes and forced into helping a young tribal princess flee her home. The rest of the land has also been thrown into chaos by dark plans and nothing is certain. When everything seems to be lost, Trey's true destiny is forced upon his shoulders.
Wolves of Wapato The Bite of Denahi Everyone wants William Darkshade dead! It's been a long worrisome week since Uncle Jesse, Cousin Eli and some of the younger boys have turned up missing. It was supposed to be a traditional hunting and training expedition. As Denahi stares out over the open plains of his Native American Reservation called Wapato, up towards the scenic view of Mt. Adams, wondering and worrying, he decides to take action into his own hands. Throwing together a search party of nearby neighbors and a handful of his closest friends, Denahi, with his best friend, Nakai - the pack leader, Cliff - the keen tracker, along with Kenai and Keno - the mischievous twins, and Naomi - the...
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. It reveals how practices and theories associated with these art forms frequently result in corroboration, and contains chapters from both practitioners and theoreticians who work in areas where innovative synergies between sound art and music can be identified. Although practice and theory are inseparable, discourses surrounding practice are elusive but informative, and, as such, are given particular recognition and exploration in this volume. Taken as a whole, the book provides a snapshot of contemporary research across a range of sound art and music disciplines, showcasing the variety, scope and scale of this exciting, if bewildering, area of study.