Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notations
Published by Continuum, New York, 2012
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456 pp., 7 x 10 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers, with more than 150 black-and-white illustrations. New. Word Events features more than 170 scores, many printed here for the first time, representing the works of more than 50 practitioners, including such seminal figures as George Brecht, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Tony Conrad, Sol LeWitt, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, Erik Satie, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Also well represented is a new generation of artists, including Antoine Beuger, Seth Kim-Cohen, Michael Pisaro, and Jennifer Walshe, for whom verbal notation is a medium of choice. . . . Commentaries explore the compositional strategies and performance practice of particular works, including previously hard-to-find texts by Lawrence Halprin and Kenneth Maue, together with many new statements from and interviews with composers, artists, and performers.
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- Title
- Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notations
- Author
- John Lely and James Saunders
- Publisher
- Continuum, New York
- Publication year
- 2012
- ISBN 10
- 1441173102
- ISBN 13
- 9781441173102
- Edition
- First edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Conceptual Art, Music, Performance
Word Events features over 170 scores, many printed here for the first time, representing the works of more than 50 practitioners including George Brecht, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Michael Pisaro, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jennifer Walshe and La Monte Young.
The commentaries in the book explore the compositional strategies and performance practice of particular works, contextualised by key essays, including previously hard-to-find texts by Lawrence Halprin and Kenneth Maue, together with many new statements and interviews from composers, artists and performers. This unique and wide-ranging collection of scores and writings will be indispensable to musicians, artists, those involved with community arts, and anyone with an interest in exploring the rich potential of the written word.
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