Process Music

Alcedo Coenen and Remko Scha

 

Course at the University of Amsterdam,
Department of Computational Linguistics & Department of Musicology, Fall 1993.

READINGS:

Part I. Processes, Concepts, Events.

Marcel Duchamp: "Apropos of  'Readymades' " (1961) In: Art and Artists, 1, 4 (1966).

John Cage: "Experimental Music." (1957) In: Silence. Lectures and Writings by John Cage. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1973, pp. 7 - 12.

George Brecht: Chance-Imagery. New York: Something Else Press, 1957/1966.

George Brecht: Water-Yam. (1959 -1962) Editions Lebeer Hossmann, Bruxelles Hamburg.

La Monte Young: "Lecture 1960." In: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela: Selected Writings. München: Heiner Friedrich, 1969.

La Monte Young: "Compositions." (1960) In: La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow (eds.): An Anthology. 1963.

Walter de Maria: "Meaningless Work." (1960) In: La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow (eds.): An Anthology. 1963.

Walter de Maria: "On the Importance of Natural Disasters." (1960) In: La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow (eds.): An Anthology. 1963.

Henry A. Flynt: "Concept Art." (1961) In: La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow (eds.): An Anthology. 1963. [Reprinted in: Henry Flynt: Blueprint for a Higher Civilization. Milano: Multipla Edizioni, 1975.]

Dick Higgins: "Boredom and Danger." (1966) In: A Dialectic of Centuries. Notes Towards a Theory of the New Arts. New York, NY: Printed Editions, 1978, pp. 42 - 50.

Steve Reich: "Music as a Gradual Process." (1968) In: Writings about Music. New York: New York University Press, 1974, pp. 9 -11.

Sol LeWitt: "Sentences on Conceptual Art, 1968." Art-Language, 1, 1 (1969). [Reprinted in: Ursula Meyer: Conceptual Art. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.]

Michael Nyman: Experimental Music. Cage and beyond. London: Studio Vista, 1974.

Ben Vautier: "C'est magnifique, c'est formidable." In: Écouter par les yeux. Objets et environnements sonores. Exhibition catalogue ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1980.


Part 2. Physics and Technology.

La Monte Young: "Notes on the Continuous Periodic Composite Sound Waveform Environment Realizations of 'Map of 49's Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery'." In: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela: Selected Writings. München: Heiner Friedrich, 1969.

Joe Jones: Music Machines 1962 - 1989. My First Book of Computer Drawings. Tone Deaf Music Company.

Steve Reich: "Pendulum Music for microphones, amplifiers, speakers and performers." (1968/1973) In: Writings about Music. New York: New York University Press, 1974, pp. 9 -11.

The New Percussion Quartet: "Be Prepared. A Group Composition." Source 6 (vol. 3/2), July 1969.

Harold Budd: "Intermission Piece", "Lovely Thing (Piano)", "Mangus Colorado". Source 6 (vol. 3/2), July 1969.

Alvin Lucier: Chambers. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1980.

Mauricio Kagel: "Détour vers une plus haute sous-fidélité." VH 101 4 (Winter 1970-71).

Dick Raaijmakers: "Dick Raaymakers." Museum Journaal 24, 3 (May 1979).

Elmer Schönberger, J.F. Vogelaar, Dick Raaijmakers: "Verschuivingen in de slagorde." Raster 19 (1981), pp. 14 - 58.

Dick Higgins: "Mechanical Music No. 1 (Concretion 1)." (1959/1979) In: Écouter par les yeux. Objets et environnements sonores. Exhibition catalogue ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1980.

Takis: "Musical, 1979." In: Écouter par les yeux. Objets et environnements sonores. Exhibition catalogue ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1980.

Pontus Hulten: "Jean Tinguely." In: Écouter par les yeux. Objets et environnements sonores. Exhibition catalogue ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1980.

Glenn Branca: Symphony No. 5. Describing Planes of an Expanding Hypersphere. Program Notes, October 1984.

Remko Scha: "The Machines." (1984) Ear Magazine 9, 1 (May/June 1984).

Bill Davenport: "Interview with Remko Scha." Unsound 1, 4 (July 1984)

Remko Scha: "Music and Mechanics." In: Dick Raaijmakers (ed.): Anti Qua Musica. The Hague: SDU, 1989. Pp. 67-72. [In Dutch.]


Part 3. Algorithmic Processes.

Marcel Duchamp: "Erratum Musical." In: Michel Sabouillet and Elmer Peterson (eds.): The Essential Writings of Marcel Duchamp. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975.

György Ligeti: "Poème Symphonique (für 100 metronome)." (1962) In: Herman de Vries (ed.): Revue Intégration, No. 4 (November 1965).

Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano, Vol III & IV. CD Wergo WER 60 1 66/67-50. With musical analyses by James Tenney and an essay by Charles Amirkhanian.

Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson: "Musical Composition with a High-Speed Digital Computer." Journal of the Audio-Engineering Society, 1958.

Larry Polansky: "The Early Works of James Tenney. XI. Spectral CANON for CONLON Nancarrow for Harmonic Player Piano (1979)." Soundings 13. The Music of James Tenney. Santa Fe: Soundings Press, 1984.

Frederic Rzewski: "Les Moutons de Panurge." (1969) In: Michael Nyman: Experimental Music. Cage and beyond. London: Studio Vista, 1974.

Tom Johnson: "Rational Melodies." (1982)