This is the first book which deals with the school of American repetitive music, also know as minimal music. The early work of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass is discussed in the context of traditional Western music. Minimal music thus emerges as the latest stage in a development leading from Schoenberg, Webern, Stockhausen and Cage. In considering the philosophical thinking of Deleuze and Lyotard, the representatives of the so-called French ' libidinal philosophy', and of Adorno, the author examines the degree to which the 'ecstatic dimension' is present in this music or is even consciously introduced to it.

Includes composer's notes, biography, black & white film photos and original compositions for solos piano from Michael Nyman: Big My Secret,The Mood That Passes Through You, Deep Sleep Playing, Silver-Fingered Fling, The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle, Heart Asks Pleasure First.

Peter Greenaway's surreal story has twin brothers (Brian and Eric Deacon), both zoologists, re-examining the meaning of life after a car accident involving a swan claims the lives of their wives. They study the decomposition of several animals with time-lapse photography, plot to liberate zoo animals, and begin a menage-a-trois with the one-legged woman who survived the crash.

Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing that developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the postwar modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather than purely musical starting point and radically challenge conventional notions of the musical work. Nyman's book traces the revolutionary attitudes that were developed toward concepts of time, space, sound, and composer/performer responsibility. It was within the experimental tradition that the seeds of musical minimalism were sown and the book contains reference to the early works of Reich, Riley, Young, and Glass. This second edition contains a new Foreword, an updated discography, and a historical overview by the author.

(Music Sales America). Available for the first time for solo piano, here are four fabulous arrangements from the motion-picture soundtrack of The Piano plus the two favorite themes from the award-winning film by Jane Campion. This is another wonderfully presented edition with stills from the film, an origianl manuscript sketch and note from Nyman to lead actress Holly Hunter, who performs the pieces herself in the film.

Michael Nyman's piano music has struck a chord with audiences across the world and this anthology brings together his most successful and best-loved pieces in one superb volume. All the tracks features in this work are transcribed and restored to solo piano, including previously unpublished works for Nyman's recent CD - "The Piano Sings".

Live performance and documentary featuring British composer Michael Nyman. In 'Michael Nyman in Concert' The Michael Nyman Band perform 'The Musicologist Scores' and other compositions at Studio Halle. 'Michael Nyman: Composer in Progress', directed by Silvia Beck, offers a portrait of Nyman, who shares his thoughts and opinions, offering an insight into his personal life.

Two more short films from Peter Greenaway. In 'Vertical Falls Remake' academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper while 'The Falls' is divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been affected by the 'VUE', the Violent Unknown Event and a phenomenom in some way connected with birds and flying.

Dziga Vertov's groundbreaking film accompanied by a new, specially-written score by composer Michael Nyman. Vertov's film is widely acknowledged as one of the landmark achievements of early modern cinema; its use of such radical effects as dissolves, split screens, slow motion, superimpositions and freeze frames have made for one of the most enduring representations of early 20th century city life.

Dziga Vertov's groundbreaking film accompanied by a new, specially-written score by composer Michael Nyman. Vertov's film is widely acknowledged as one of the landmark achievements of early modern cinema; its use of such radical effects as dissolves, split screens, slow motion, superimpositions and freeze frames have made for one of the most enduring representations of early 20th century city life.

Documentary exploring the role and implications of surveillance in British society. The UK has become one of the most intrusive surveillance states in the world. When director David Bond decides to find out how much private companies and the government really know about him by attempting to 'disappear', he finds himself on a chilling journey that forces him to contemplate the meaning of privacy - and the loss of it.

Six early shorts by the director of 'The Draughtsman's Contract' and 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover'. 'A Walk Through H' describes a series of 92 maps that guide a dead ornithologist on his way to the afterlife, whilst 'Windows' is the history of 37 people who have fallen to their death from windows. The other shorts are 'H is For House', 'Intervals', 'Dear Phone' and 'Water Wrackets'.