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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 hislater 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 Tudors instruments, Reminded by the Instruments sets out to solve the puzzle of David Tudor by applying Tudors own methods for approaching the materials of others to the vast archive of materials that he himself leftbehind. You Nakai deftly patches together instruments, electronic circuits, sketches, diagrams, recordings, letters, receipts, customs declaration forms, and testimonies like modular pieces of a giant puzzle to reveal the long-hidden nature of Tudors creative process. Rejecting the establishednarrative of Tudor as a performer-turned-composer, this book presents a lively portrait of an artist whose activity always merged both of these roles. In reading Tudors electronic devices as musicological texts and examining his idiosyncratic use of electronic circuits, Nakai underminesdiscourses on sound and illuminates our understanding of the instruments behind the sounds in post-war experimental music.About author(s):You Nakai, Assistant Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts You Nakai creates music(ians), dance(rs), haunted musical houses, nursery rhymes, and other forms of performances as a member of No Collective (nocollective.com) and Already Not Yet (alreadynotyet.org). He is Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Oxford University Press, Usa
