SOURCE Music of the Avant Garde #9 RARE John Cage Anna Lockwood Stanley Lunetta
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Each issue had a print run of 2,000 copies, although the first issue originally ran 1,000 copies before selling out and warranting an additional 1,000 copies. According to chief editor Larry Austin, the spiral-bound, 10 ¾ x 13 ½ inches landscape format was inspired by some of John Cage's graphic scores as well as the benefit of being able to stand the magazine up on a piano or music stand when performing pieces. Subscribers were composers, teachers, performers or libraries located in North America and Europe. The magazine was never subsidized or funded by any institution. Despite or thanks to its short existence, the scope of Source magazine appears both focused and wide ranging. Emerging from a rejection of formal concert performance and traditional music notation, Source also included performance art and sound poetry in its coverage of avantgarde graphic scores, therefore expanding the very definition of music. It welcomed veterans like Harry Partch, Lukas Foss, John Cage or Morton Feldman, as well as young Turks of the avant-garde like Hugh Davies , Daniel Lentz or Jerry Hunt.
Over the years, Source covered West Coast experimentalism of the 1960s (Gordon Mumma, Robert Ashley) ; American Minimalism (Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, Earle Brown) ; the birth of Sound Art as we know it (Alvin Lucier, Max Neuhaus, Annea Lockwood) ; improvised and indeterminate music (the ONCE Group, Musica Elettronica Viva, Toshi Ichiyanagi) ; Fluxus and performance art with Dick Higgins or Allan Kaprow ; European sound poetry with the Fylkingen affiliated artists or Bernard Heidsieck ; the British Systems music of Cornelius Cardew, Howard Skempton, Michael Parsons and Gavin Bryars.
Source also welcomed the use of advanced technology (electronic, video, communications) to expand music's scope.[9] The magazine published information on Don Buchla's newly built synthesizer, Nam June Paik's first video experiments or Lowell Cross's video/laser light shows featured in issue #9, 1971. The trend was perfectly in synch with the Art & Technology show at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971, where contemporary artists were offered to partner with engineers and technicians of their choice.The greatest publication ever on Avant Garde music. These 'magazines' measure 14" x 11" and each one is chock full of articles and pictures by the leading composers of Electronic & Avant Garde music from the 60s - included in many of them are 10" 33rpm records featuring compositions of select composers - and SCORES - many of them complete - not just on paper but on mylar, pieces of fur, overlappings, IN COLOR etc. It is a true multi-media magazine. Words cannot describe this great magazine.
Issue #9 - Several Exhibits with accompanying materials to build or perform on your own. Both records with recorded examples are included. Look like they've never been played.
Lowell Cross
Arrigo Lora-Totino
Marilyn Wood
Jim Burns
Manford Eaton
Jacques Brodier
Ed Kobrin
Alvin Curran
Paul Klerr
Anna Lockwood
Nelson Howe
Nicolas Slonminsky
This is the coolest magazine ever, from the perspective of graphic design, printing, book bindery, experimental music, art and psychology. No returns. Please view the images closely and email me with any questions or requests for more photos. I'm more than happy to send. Ships USPS Priority Mail. Thanks for looking!
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