Avant Garde Project 158: LaMonte Young I

I was going to continue with the US Electronc Music series this week, but I stumbled upon a cache of out-of-print CDs by the legendary pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young, and so AGP158 is the first of (probably) three devoted to his work. These CDs are so rare that used copies of some of [...]

Maryann Amacher passed away

The music world lost one of its most bizarre characters today, and I say that with the utmost possible affection. Maryanne Amacher was an amazing composer of sound installations, who occasionally taught courses at Bard. I first encountered her in 1980 at New Music America in Minneapolis. She had, as was her wont, fitted an [...]

Fluxus Anthology

1. Walter Marchetti, “Per la sete dell’orecchio,” 1975 (2:13)
2. Juan Hidalgo, “Tamaran,” 1974 (3:50)
3. La Monte Young, “Dream House,” 1973 (3:45)
4. Ben Vautier, “Some Ideas for Fluxus,” 1989 (1:23)
5. Wolf Vostell, “Elektronischer de-coll.age. Happening raum,” 1968 (3:00)
6. Milan Knizak, “Broken Music Composition,” 1979, (3:26)
7. Robert Filliou, “Imitating the Sound [...]

Cage/Cunningham – a film by Elliot Caplan

Elliot Caplan
Cage/Cunningham

(D1401)

Producido por la Fundación Cunningham Dance y dirigido, en 1991, por el realizador estadounidense Elliot Caplan, “Cage/Cunningham” es un revelador retrato fílmico de dos de los artistas más revolucionarios e influyentes del siglo XX: el compositor John Cage (1912-1992) y el coreógrafo y bailarín Merce Cunningham (1919- ). En él, Caplan combina magistralmente secuencias [...]