Cybersonic Arts: Adventures in American New Music (Music in American Life) - Hardcover

Mumma, Gordon; MUMMA ED. FILLION

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252039432 ISBN 13: 9780252039430

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2015

Synopsis

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Fillion curates a collection of Mumma's writings, presenting revised versions of his classic pieces as well as many unpublished works from every stage of his storied career.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.

About this title

Book Description:

A candid account of a broad artistic community by an active participant and observer

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 .

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0252039432
• ISBN 13: 9780252039430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Fillion Michelle