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Reminded by the Instruments - David Tudor's Music (Hardcover)
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Reminded by the Instruments - David Tudor's Music (Hardcover)
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David Tudor is remembered today in two guises: as an extraordinary
pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with
composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a
founding figure of live-electronic music. His early realization of
indeterminate graphic scores and his later performances using
homemade modular instruments both inspired a whole generation of
musicians. But his reticence, his unorthodox approaches, and the
diversity of his creative output - which began with the organ and
ended with visual art - have kept Tudor a puzzle. Illustrated with
more than 300 images of diagrams, schematics, and photographs of
Tudor's instruments, Reminded by the Instruments sets out to solve
the puzzle of David Tudor by applying Tudor's own methods for
approaching the materials of others to the vast archive of
materials that he himself left behind. You Nakai deftly patches
together instruments, electronic circuits, sketches, diagrams,
recordings, letters, receipts, customs declaration forms, and
testimonies like modular pieces of a giant puzzle to reveal the
long-hidden nature of Tudor's creative process. Rejecting the
established narrative of Tudor as a performer-turned-composer, this
book presents a lively portrait of an artist whose activity always
merged both of these roles. In reading Tudor's electronic devices
as musicological 'texts' and examining his idiosyncratic use of
electronic circuits, Nakai undermines discourses on sound and
illuminates our understanding of the instruments behind the sounds
in post-war experimental music.
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