"Who knew, prior to this lovingly detailed account, that five musical discontents could construct what amounted to a cultural particle accelerator in a small San Franciscan house? This book allows readers a window onto the confluence of artistry, innovation, drugs, sexuality, poverty, resourcefulness and, most importantly, the sense of fun that permeated the air during those years."--Richard Henderson, critic for The Wire magazine
"As I devoured this vibrantly detailed history of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, I found myself wishing repeatedly that I'd been born a couple of decades earlier, so I could have been present for a string of historic events: the debut of the Don Buchla synthesizer, the premiere of Terry Riley's In C, Ramon Sender's Tropical Fish Opera, Pauline Oliveros's multimedia concert at the Trips Festival. The heroes of the Center were in the business of realizing unimagined possibilities, and they did much to shape the legendary culture of San Francisco in the later sixties."--Alex Ross
"Hats off to David Bernstein for flooding a dark corner of recent musical history with new light, as warm as it is brilliant."--Richard Taruskin, author of The Oxford History of Western Music
"This high-voltage oral history takes us straight back to the West Coast epicenter of experimental music in the early 1960s, where synthesizers and tape loops met light shows and LSD, and Merry Pranksters hung with the masters of minimalism. Reading it is like visiting a foreign country and realizing you were born there."--Fred Turner, author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword, by John Rockwell Then, Now, and Then Again (A Preface), by Johannes Goebel Introduction, by David W. Bernstein The SFTMC: Emerging Art Forms and the American Counterculture, by David W. Bernstein The SFTMC: A Report, by Ramon Sender Overview of the Tape Music Center's Goals, by Ramon Sender Ramon Sender and William Maginnis, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Memoir of a Community Enterprise, by Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Music as Studio Art, by Morton Subotnick Morton Subotnick, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Composing with Light, by Tony Martin Tony Martin, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Don Buchla, interviewed by David W.Bernstein and Maggi Payne Michael Callahan, interviewed by Thomas M. Welsh The Great Grand Kludge! by William Maginnis Terry Riley, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Anna Halprin, interviewed by David W. Bernstein Stewart Brand, interviewed by David W. Bernstein Stuart Dempster, interviewed by Thomas M. Welsh Chronology, by Thomas M. Welsh Archival Recordings DVD Program Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
