Historical Recordings 1968-1998 Adam, Peter Streiff, ... Musikszene Schweiz, 2002             OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music25 reviews Brian Eno, Maryanne Amacher, ... Ellipsis Arts, 2000 Not your grandson's electronic music + excellent but uncomplete + To call it music may be a bit limiting. + A worthwhile collection             Minimalists (20th Century Composers)1 review Schwarz Phaidon Press, 1996 Minimalism revealed with enthusiasm K. Robert Schwartz's book is very professinoal job. It reveales the genesis of minimalism and follows the traces of it's most important advocates to this day. Mr Schwartz is obviously an enthusiast but uses also crtical tone of voice when necassery. After reading this book one is well aware of ...             LaMonte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC5 reviews La Monte Young Gramavision, 1992 otherwordly + Incredibly Thought Provoking + the motherlode... + What could be more natural, and yet more alienating? + Celestial Cloud Cover             Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition 3CD + DVD11 reviews Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, ... Ellipsis Arts, 2005 A great collection of important works + Electronic Hapiness + The Total Package + An Audio Encyclopedia of Early Electronic Experiments + Worth the dough             U.S.A. Arditti String Quartet, John Cage, ... Disques Montaigne, 1994 This is the only recording of three of the eight works heard here. Arditti uncovers a powerful early work by Alvin Lucier, who is known primarily for his electronic music. Lucier's Fragments (Rome, 1961) has each player performing at his own speed, and the quartet improvising on a single pitch! The other two premiere recordings are Jay Yim's Autumn Rhythm , named after a Jackson Pollock ...             Music for the Gift1 review Terry Riley, George Solano, ... Elision Fields, 2004 Incredible Riley i've had the time to really dig into this cd and i am still amazed at these early experiments.Most of them are done from recordings made by a mid sixties Chet Baker (!) and his group. And Riley then starts messing around with these recordings sending Baker to a whole different plateau. There are ...             Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth ...2 reviews Keith Potter Cambridge University Press, 2002 music theory exposition, and history too + makes you ponder what this was all about Potter's book will be best appreciated by those with a much better understanding of music theory than I. However, I learned something about the personal and musical history of so-called "minimalism." (Potter falls prey to some extent to the problem of reifying an abstraction -- having first ...             American Minimal Music: LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass1 review Wim Mertens John Deere Publishing, 1988 This book rocks. I can now quite honestly say with conviction that others observe us in far different but still similar yet thought provoking, light-shedding manner. Wim Mertens, I believe, has done just that. Man oh man, I love nothing more than digging into a good chapter of this book. Always insightful, ...             Just West Coast2 reviews John Schneider, John Cage, ... Bridge, 1993 like spring water(just intonation) versus tonality(polluted) + Excellent selection Just intonation is based on the natural physicalness of sound,that composers and performers . We haven't, in the history of Western music, instead we have been barbarians with Tonality as our ear- icon, the Western system of what we hear(or don't hear) today is based on "bent" or altered states ...             Minimalism: Origins4 reviews Edward Strickland Indiana University Press, 1999 Excellent interdisciplinary study + Renaissance Man on a Mission + Minimalism: Origins + wonderful book on What Was             USA John Cage, Elliott Carter, ... Disques Montaigne, 2001             Sound and Light: La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela1 review Bucknell University Press, 1996 . I found Sound and Light to be very informative. It is one of the only, if not the only, book entirely dedicated to the music and art of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. This book not only offers something for those trained in music theory but also for those who are interested in learning more ...             La Monte Young: The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath, An Homage Just Dreams, 1999             Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century)6 reviews Michael Nyman Cambridge University Press, 1999 THE 20th CENTURY RADICAL AVANT-GARDE + Not a revision, a reprint + A Classic Introduction + processes and fields of sound, not time-objects... + A welcome return             Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. I: Day of Niagara7 reviews John Cale, Tony Conrad, ... Table of Elements, 2000 deeply moving + Slow Down and Listen ... + Caution + The DRone DronEs On...and on and on and on....             USA1 review John Cage, Elliott Carter, ... Disques Montaigne, 2001 Mixed results from the Ardittis' US quartets disc This disc contains eight works for string quartet--five short, three more substantial--by a variety of American composers. Of these, six (all except Yim and Carter) can be considered part of that specifically American experimentalist tradition. Carter's Elegy comes from 1946, before he had found ...             La Monte Young: Midnight; Raga Malkauns Just Dreams, 2002             USA1 review John Cage, Elliott Carter, ... Disques Montaigne, 2001 Mixed results from the Ardittis' US quartets disc This disc contains eight works for string quartet--five short, three more substantial--by a variety of American composers. Of these, six (all except Yim and Carter) can be considered part of that specifically American experimentalist tradition. Carter's Elegy comes from 1946, before he had found ...             LaMonte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC5 reviews La Monte Young Gramavision, 1992 otherwordly + Incredibly Thought Provoking + the motherlode... + What could be more natural, and yet more alienating? + Celestial Cloud Cover