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Composer, performer, instrument builder, teacher, and writer Gordon Mumma has left an indelible mark on the American contemporary music scene. A prolific composer and innovative French horn player, Mumma is recognized for integrating advanced electronic processes into musical structures, an approach he has termed ""Cybersonics."" Musicologist Michelle Fillion curates a collection of Mumma's writings, presenting revised versions of his classic pieces as well as many unpublished works from every stage of his storied career. Here, through words and astonishing photos, is Mumma's chronicle of seminal events in the musical world of the twentieth century: his cofounding the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music; his role in organizing the historic ONCE Festivals of Contemporary Music; performances with the Sonic Arts Union; and working alongside John Cage and David Tudor as a composer-musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In addition, Mumma describes his collaborations with composers, performers, dancers, and visual artists ranging from Robert Ashley and Pauline Oliveros to Marcel Duchamp and Robert Rauschenberg. Candid and insightful, Cybersonic Arts is the eye-opening account of a broad artistic community by an active participant and observer.

Table of Contents:
CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsFiguresMusical ExamplesTablesForewordIntroductionPreamble. Gordon Mumma: A Short BiographyPart I. Unmarked Interchange: Ann Arbor and the ONCE Years (1960–66)1. Music's Avant-Garde: What's New?2. Manifestations: Light and Sound: Milton Cohen's Space Theatre3. An Electronic Music Studio for the Independent Composer4. The ONCE Festival and How It Happened5. The ONCE Group's Unmarked Interchange and Night TrainPart II. Cybersonics and the Sonic Arts (1966–75)6. Creative Aspects of Live-Performance Electronic Music Technology7. Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer 19658. Two Cybersonic Works: Horn and Hornpipe9. Music in America 1970: Points of View10. A Brief Introduction to the Sound-Modifier Console and Sun(flower) Burst11. What We Did Last Summer: A Commentary on ICES 197212. Two Decades of Live-Electronic Music, 1950–7013, Witchcraft, Cybersonics, and Folkloric VirtuosityPart III. In the Cunningham Circle14. A Day on the Road with the Cunningham Dance Company15. From Where the Circus Went16. Robert Rauschenberg in the Creative Fields of the Cunningham Dance Company17. With Tudor the Organist18. David Tudor the Composer along the Path to RainforestPart IV. Not Wanting to Say Anything about John (Cage)19. Cage as Performer20. John Cage, Electronic Technology, and Live-Electronic Music21. Twenty-Five Minutes with John CagePart V. Latin America22. Innovation in Latin American Electro-Acoustical Music23. Briefly about Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano24. Uruguayan Diary: The Cuarto Curso Latinoamericano de Música Contemporánea, Cerro del ToroPart VI. An American Gallery25. Nelson Mix for Gordon Mumma26. Gordon Mumma's Stovepipe for Richard Nelson27. Good Times Up on the Farm28. Merce and Ludwig29. On the Ives Railroad30. A Visit to Mount Olympus with David Tudor31. On George Cacioppo32. Earle's WorldsThree Sonic Arts Union Sketches33. Speaking Robert Ashley34. Crossings with David Behrman35. Becoming Alvin Lucier36. Working with Pauline OliverosPart VII. Mumma on Mumma37. Notes on My Creative ProceduresAppendix: Selective List of Gordon Mumma's Musical CompositionsNotesWorks CitedIndex

About the Author :
Gordon Mumma worked for twenty years as a professor of music at the University of California. In 2000, he received the John Cage Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. His wife Michelle Fillion is a professor of musicology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the author of Difficult Rhythm: Music and the Word in E. M. Forster.

Review :
"What counts here is the spirit of it, the inventiveness springing from an independence of imagination as well as the willingness and financial necessity to work outside the given conditions of the time. Mumma shows us how that spirit is in fact crucial and, always, of essential value."--Christian Wolff, from the foreword "An excellent and engaging book that can take its readers to a dizzying array of places, real and metaphoric. It is an admirable introduction to the mind and spirit of Gordon Mumma as well as a vivid and loving remembrance of an amazing time in the history of music."--ARSC Journal "The firsthand histories flowing from this book are precious, provided by one of the unsung heroes of the American electronic music scene, Gordon Mumma... A valuable resource."--Neural


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780252097546
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Adventures in American New Music
  • ISBN-10: 0252097548
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2015
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 296


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