Source Magazine: Music of the Avant Garde Issues 4-11

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Selling my original collect of Source Magazine Issues 4-11.  There was only 11 issues of the magazine.  Fascinating series of magazines on Avant Garde music from 1967-1973.  I can send more photos if you like to see backs and a sample page from each book.  I will try to sell this as a collection first then if it doesn't sell I auction each book at a higher price.

Source: Music of the Avant Garde (also known and hereafter referred to as Source Magazine) is a bi-yearly publication of the late 1960s (1967-1973) documenting West Coast musical experimentalism. It was founded by Larry Austin at the University of California in 1967, later curated by Stan Lunetta and Art Woodbury. California in the late 1960s was flourishing with progressive musical creativity, either at UC-Davis, Berkeley Free University or MidPeninsula Free University. Austin also occasionally collaborated with the San Francisco Tape Music Center, according to his bio on EMF Artists page[1].

Genres covered in Source Magazine range from indeterminacy to aleatoric composition, from group improvisation to multimedia theater, from graphic scores to conceptual art. The Source Magazine editorial team took part to a series of radio shows on KPFA radio[2], a radio station from Berkeley, California, from 1969 to 1972, discussing and playing avant-garde music.

Source was published by Composer/Performer Edition, an imprint based in Davis and later Sacramento, California, which also published music scores in addition to the magazine. Each issue (measuring 14" x 11" and spiral-bound) is a collection of articles,  interviews, manifestos, poems, photographies, occasional LP or music scores like John Cage’s Plexigram IV: Not Wanting To Say Anything About Marcel, issue #7, which was printed on plexiglass, whereas other uncommon material used for printing have included mylar or fur (for Nelson Howe’s Fur Music, issue #9).

Appreciation


«The series constitutes a vivid documentary window on five years’ worth of eclectic, cross-disciplinary, and anti-rational West Coast experimentalism in then-controversial music and multimedia.» Steve Gerber, GMU Performing Arts Librarian article[3]
«The greatest publication ever on Avant Garde music», according to Deep Listening Institute[4]
Bibliography


Issue #4

Larry Austin
David Behrman
Mario Bertoncini
Allan Bryant
John Cage
Lowell Cross
Jocy de Oliveira
Lukas Foss
Lejaren Hiller
Ben Johnston
Udo Kasemets

+LP1: Robert Ashley The Wolfman c/w David Behrman Wave Train
+LP2: Larry Austin Accidents
c/w Allan Bryant Pitch Out ]]

Issue #5

Christian Wolff
Dick Higgins
Stanley Lunetta
Robert Erickson
Jon Hassel
Arthur Woodbuy
Andrew Stiller
R. Murray Schafer
Max Neuhaus
Barney Childs
The New Percussion Quartet ]]

Issue #6

Philip Corner
Jani Christou
Harold Budd
John Dinwiddie
Alvin Lucier
John Mizelle
Frederic Rzewski
Daniel Lentz
David Rosenboom
Morton Feldman
Roger Reynolds
Joel Gutsche ]]



Issue #7-8

Alvin Sumsion
John Dinwiddie
Ben Johnston
Ed Kobrin
Dick Higgins
Arthur Woodbury
Pauline Oliveiros
Robert Moran
Keith Muscutt
Allen Strange
Alvin Lucier
Jocy de Oliveira
Morton Feldman
David Tudor
Mark Riener
Barry Spinello
Don Walker
Stanley Lunetta
+ LP1: Alvin Lucier I am sitting in a room c/w Arthur Woodbury Velox
+ LP2: Larry Austin Caritas c/w Stanley Lunetta Moosack Machine ]]

Issue #9

Arrigo Lora-Totino
Marilyn Wood
Jim Burns
Manford Eaton
Jacques Brodier
Ed Kobrin
Alvin Curran
Paul Klerr
Annea Lockwood
Nelson Howe
Nicolas Slonimsky
+LP1: Lowell Cross Video II
c/w Arrigo Lora-Totino English Phonemes
+LP2: Alvin Curran Magic Carpet
c/w Annea Lockwood Tiger Balm ]]

Issue #10

Stuart Marshall
Steve Reich
Anthony Braxton
Cornelius Cardew
Richard Martin
Pauline Oliveiros
Scratch Orchestra
Niked Software
Portsmouth Sinfonia
Gentle Fire
Mary Lucier ]]



Issue #11

Tom Marioni
Per Kirkeby
Jaroslaw Kozlowski
Endre Tot
Nam June Paik
Peter Donath
Janos Major
Stanley Lunetta
Ken Friedman
Tony Gnazzo
Jiri Valoch
Maria Michalowska
Eva Lurati
Eugen Brikcius
Dietrich Albrecht
Wolf Vostell
Jock Reynolds
Fluxus
Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz
Stu Horn
John Paul Rhinehart
Stanley Marsh 3
Milan Knizak
Christo
Gyula Gulyas
Eric Andersen
Max Neuhaus
Victor Grauer
Image Bank
Allan Kaprow
Charles Amirkhanian
Zorka Saglova
Dick Higgins
Olaf Hanel
Joseph Beuys
Nicolas Slonimsky
Robert Filiou ]]