Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notations
New York: Continuum, 2012.
First edition. 456 pp., 7 x 10 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers, with more than 150 black-and-white illustrations. New. Item #4800
ISBN: 9781441173102
"Word Events features more than 170 scores, many printed here for the first time, representing the works of more than 50 practitioners, including such seminal figures as George Brecht, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Tony Conrad, Sol LeWitt, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, Erik Satie, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Also well represented is a new generation of artists, including Antoine Beuger, Seth Kim-Cohen, Michael Pisaro, and Jennifer Walshe, for whom verbal notation is a medium of choice. . . . Commentaries explore the compositional strategies and performance practice of particular works, including previously hard-to-find texts by Lawrence Halprin and Kenneth Maue, together with many new statements from and interviews with composers, artists, and performers."
Price: $48.00