THE SAN FRANCISCO TAPE MUSIC CENTER: 1960s COUNTERCULTURE AND THE AVANT-GARDE
short bluesky summary
⌘ Western music gets reinvented by *checks notes* Ramon Sender, Morton Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Don Buchla
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Notes [oldest to newest]
1. The Merry Pranksters' "Psychedelic Symphony"
2. Ramon Sender's "Four Sanskrit Hymns"
3. Terry Riley's "Concert for Two Pianos and Four Tape Recorders"
4. 1958: Pauline Oliveros / Terry Riley improvisations
5. 1952: Cage's theatrical pieces
6. 1959: Allan Kaprow's early Happenings
8. Moholy-Nagy's "theater of totality"
9. The films of John and James Whitney
10. Pauline Oliveros' "Software for People"
11. Zdenek Pesanek
12. 1957: Lukas Foss's Improvisation Chamber Ensemble
13. 1965: AMM
14. Anna Halprin