All contributors to SOURCE: Music of the Avant Garde Magazine by gender

Eleven issues of SOURCE: Music of the Avant Garde magazine were published from 1967 - 1973 at the University of California Davis. This is a list of all contributors by gender. As far as I have been able to discern, only one person of color was featured: Anthony Braxton. I would be grateful to any readers willing to offer comments/corrections!

WOMEN (12)

Kira Gale

Allison Knowles (not featured or mentioned in table of contents, but included in an article)

Annea Lockwood

Mary Lucier (photography)

Eva Lurati

Dora Maurer

Maria Michalowska

Charlotte Moorman (not featured or mentioned in table of contents, but included in an article)

Pauline Oliveros

Jocy de Oliviera

Marilyn Wood

Zorka Saglova

MEN (107)

Dietrich Albrecht

Charles Amirkhanian

Eric Anderson

Robert Ashley

Larry Austin

David Behrman

Mario Bertoncini

Joseph Beuys

Boudewijn Buckinx

Anthony Braxton

Eugen Brikcius

Jacques Brodier

Earle Brown

Allan Bryant

Harold Budd

John Cage

Cornelius Cardew

Barney Childs

Giuseppe Chiari

Christo

Phillip Corner

Lowell Cross

Alvin Curran

John Dinwiddie

Peter Donath

Manford Eaton

Robert Erickson

Morton Feldman

Robert Filliou

FLUXUS (women were involved in the movement, including Allison Knowles, mentioned above)

Ken Friedman

Lukas Foss

Peter Garland

Gentle Fire

Tony Gnazzo

Victor Grauer

Gyula Gulyas

Joel Gutsche

Olaf Hanel

Jon Hassell

Sven Hansell

Lejaren Hiller

Dick Higgins

Lejaren Hiller

Stu Horn

Nelson Howe

Jerry Hunt

Toshi Ichiyanagi

Image Bank

Carson Jeffries

Ben Johnston

Bengt Emil Johnson

Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz

Allan Kaprow

Udo Kasemets

Per Kierkeby

Paul Klerr

Milan Knizak

Ed Kobrin

Jaroslaw Kozlowski

Alcides Lanza

Daniel Lentz

Arrigo Lora-Totino

Alvin Lucier

Stanley Lunetta

Janos Major

Tom Marioni

Ken Maue

Stanley March 3

Stuart Marshall

Richard Martin

Harvey Matusow

John Mizelle

Robert Moran

Gordon Mumma

Keith Muscutt

Naked Software

Max Newhaus

The New Percussion Quartet

Nam June Paik

Harry Partch

Portsmouth Sinfonia (in photograph 2 women depicted out of 13 members)

Scratch Orchestra

David Reck

Steve Reich

Jock Reynolds

Roger Reynolds

John Paul Rhinehart

Mark Riener

David Rosenboom

Frederic Rzewski

R. Murray Schafer

Gerald Shapiro

Nicholas Slonimsky

Barry Spinello

Andrew Stiller

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Allen Strange

Alvin Sumsion

Endre Tot

David Tudor

Bertran Turetzky

Jiri Valoch

Don Walker

Christian Wolff

Arthur Woodbury

Wolff Vostell

"Possibility of Action: The Life of the Score" nine years hence

By chance I recently unearthed materials from Possibility of Action: The Life of the Score, a wonderful exhibition curated by Barbara Held that opened 9 years ago today at MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.

A dress made of the striped edition of Sonic Fabric (woven from cassette tape recorded with a collage of looped and layered sounds) was included. Each of the colors in the pattern represents one of the 12 tones in the Western scale, with two additional colors representing rests (silence). 

Ensemble created for Experimental Musical Instrument Day at Lincoln Center, 2005

The pattern in the fabric was composed visually; I didn't know what it would sound like until it was notated, which happened later. I didn't think of using this method of composition again until recently...and even then, I didn't initially connect it to the sonic fabric stripe pattern...

In 2015 the Tonal Relativity project began to take shape...this ongoing series of works started out as a way of illustrating modes and intervals in a 12-tone musical system using a language of shape and color. The first set of sketches – scrawled in pencil on a 3x5 card – were created for my own use, as a reference tool that could be drawn upon in improvisational settings. A logical next step was to experiment with composition using the set of 12 colors. Any color can be used to represent any tone, with all other colors/tones in the spectrum being relative.

Performance of Wayne National Forest by Brian Harnetty

Early this year I downloaded Notes from Sub-Underground, a collection of music, sound, and assorted aural ephemera contributed by 50+ artists and compiled by Object Collection, with all proceeds to benefit ACLU Nationwide.

One of the tracks on the album – Wayne National Forest by Brian Harnetty – particularly struck me. In doing a bit of research on the composer, I came upon a series of articles at NewMusicBox about Brian's engagement with the coal mining and fracking industries in Ohio.

I learned that Wayne National Forest is under threat, and that this piece had been inspired by the struggle to preserve it.

I hoped there might be a way that this spare, sublime work could be included in a concert program I was developing to augment Imagining Sound, an exhibition of my 2- and 3D illustrations of tonal relationships at Central Features Contemporary Art. I wrote to Brian to inquire about the performance possibilities – he very generously provided us with the score and encouraged us to arrange it according to the instrumentation we would have available.

Wayne National Forest was truly a joy to play. Thanks so much to musicians Julian Mock, Elizabeth McNutt, and the Death Convention Singers, and thanks to Brian Harnetty for composing this moving work, and for the opportunity to perform it.

Complete concert program here.

Tonal Relativity Games & Experiments at UNM ARTS Lab on April 29

Tonoscore 1: Season, a work for 3 or more players by Alyce Santoro

On April 29, 2017 at 7pm at UNM ARTS Lab, conceptual/sound artist Alyce Santoro, guitarist/composer Julian Mock, flutist Elizabeth McNutt, and members of the Albuquerque-based Death Convention Singers collective will present the auditory component of Imagining Sound, Santoro's current exhibition of painting and sculpture at Central Features Contemporary Art. 

The 2- and 3D pieces in the exhibition are part of the Tonal Relativity project, an approach to the visualization of intervals and modes in a 12-tone musical system. The concert program sonifies these concepts,  featuring works of sound and music that leave open space for listening, improvisation, and chance operations.

Aleators, colorized dice to illustrate musical intervals and facilitate chance operations. Alyce Santoro, 2017.

PROGRAM: 

Worldwide Tuning Meditation by Pauline Oliveros1960 #7 by LaMonte Young
Wayne National Forest by Brian Harnetty

Game by Mario Lavista

The premier of Tonoscore 1: Season, a visual score by Alyce Santoro

Squaring the Circle of Fifths by Julian Mock

& several new frameworks for improvisation by Prepared Ear.

PERFORMERS:

Alyce Santoro & Elizabeth McNutt – flute
Julian Mock – guitar
Death Convention Singers:

Marisa Demarco – voice, electronics
Clifford Grindstaff – bass guitar, bass clarinet
Drake Hardin – clarinet
Rosie Hutchinson – violin
Ariel Muniz – cello
Alan Zimmerman – pitched percussion

 

The concert is free and open to the public.

Imagining Sound at Central Features in Albuquerque, NM

Modes of the Major Scale, acrylic on canvas, 24" x 28", 2017

Edgard Varèse suggested that "music is organized sound". Physics suggests that matter is also organized sound.

The Tonal Relativity Series offers a way of organizing sound visually...wavelengths of light evoke wavelengths of sound in the mind's ear. 

The TRS is an "open work" (see Umberto Eco) – musicians and non-musicians alike are invited to experiment with the concept. The immaterial part of the project is freely available here.

Material and quasi-material parts of the project (in the form of works on canvas, objects, and sound) will be presented at the end of this month through the end of April in Albuquerque, NM. 

"Imagining Sound" opens at Central Features Contemporary Art on March 24 from 6 - 8pm. 

I'll be giving an talk on the project at ARTS Lab New Mexico at 5:30pm on on March 22. 

Then, on the evening of April 29 (the exhibition's closing day), Prepared Ear (composer/guitarist Julian Mock and I) will present a concert at UNM ARTS Lab in collaboration with members of the Albuquerque-based Death Convention Singers and University of North Texas flute professor-pioneer/Sounds Modern co-founder Elizabeth McNutt. The program will feature works by Pauline Oliveros, LaMonte Young, Mario Lavista, and Brian Harnetty, as well as several frameworks for improvisation developed by us especially for the Tonal Relativity project. We are honored to have the opportunity to present this particular combination of works with this phenomenal group of practitioners at this particular moment.