The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture And The Avant-Garde

Notes from The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture And The Avant-Garde (2008), David W. Bernstein, ed.

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⌘ 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

7. "Composition for Actors"

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

14. Anna Halprin

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