In this Book
- Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Music in American Life
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Fillion curates a collection of Mumma's writings, presenting revised versions of his classic pieces as well as many unpublished works from every stage of his storied career.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
- Musical Examples
- p. xiv
- Introduction
- pp. xxi-xxvi
- PART I
- 1 Music’s Avant-Garde
- pp. 3-7
- 8 Two Cybersonic Works
- pp. 54-62
- 9 Music in America 1970
- pp. 63-64
- 11 What We Did Last Summer
- pp. 73-78
- 15 From Where the Circus Went
- pp. 109-136
- 17 With Tudor the Organist
- pp. 144-150
- PART IV
- 19 Cage as Performer
- pp. 159-165
- 21 Twenty-Five Minutes with John Cage
- pp. 179-192
- PART V
- 24 Uruguayan Diary
- pp. 207-232
- PART VI
- 27 Good Times Up on the Farm
- pp. 237-238
- 28 Merce and Ludwig
- p. 239
- 29 On the Ives Railroad
- pp. 240-244
- 30 A Visit to Mount Olympus with David Tudor
- pp. 245-246
- 31 On George Cacioppo
- pp. 247-250
- 32 Earle’s Worlds
- pp. 251-252
- 33 Speaking Robert Ashley
- pp. 254-255
- 34 Crossings with David Behrman
- pp. 255-256
- 35 Becoming Alvin Lucier
- pp. 256-259
- 36 Working with Pauline Oliveros
- pp. 260-262
- PART VII
- 37 Notes on My Creative Procedures
- pp. 265-284
- WORKS CITED
- pp. 317-324
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