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Experimental music score

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 133 Collections and/or Records:

Paperplay: Extraction / Gaburo, Kenneth., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-44056-46171
Scope and Contents

In this score, the word "extraction" is repeated in a column on the left side of the page and coupled with different words or phrases on the right side of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Paperplay: Murmur / Gaburo, Kenneth., 1976

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Identifier: CC-44054-46169
Scope and Contents

This is one of six books with an identical cover distinguished by the location of an arrow pointing to a title on the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Paperplay: The Beauty of Irrelevant Music / Gaburo, Kenneth., 1976

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Identifier: CC-44057-46172
Scope and Contents

On page 3, Gaburo prints the following: When asking students the question: Why do you want to compose? the best answer given to me thus far has been: "I HAVE NO CHOICE!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Partitury, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-37768-39647
Scope and Contents

This book is a compendium of experimental music scores that have been translated into the Czech language where appropriate. The title translated by Rodano Parmova & Petr Sevcik into English is Score: Graphic Music, Phonic Poetry Events, Paraphrases, INterpretations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Phonetic Diabelli or a Picture of Childhood / Curtay, Jean-Paul., 1980

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Identifier: CC-17853-18223
Scope and Contents

This is a score for five voices of body poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[poem home] / Nikonova, Rea., 1996

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Identifier: CC-60754-10003607
Scope and Contents

This work has been taken from the Archive of O!!Zone 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Rolywholyover: A Circus, 1993

 Item — Box 287: [Barcode: 31858072460680]
Identifier: CC-28811-30126
Scope and Contents

The prints are photographic reproductions of some of the works in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Rust Belt (Collectors Edition) / Orangeflux., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-31854-33376
Scope and Contents

The pages of the book consist of the verbal score for the recording. These reproduce highly varied typefaces and layouts achieved with a digital computer. The recording itself is not held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Score for Reveille / Ulher, Birgit., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46760-49492
Scope and Contents

This poster is the program of concerts presented by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla titled "Wake Up." Ulher's score is described as a starkly conceptual approach to Reveille. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Selected Writings / Young, La Monte ; Zarzella, Marian ; Kostelanetz R., 1969

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Identifier: CC-44531-46681
Scope and Contents

This book includes five pages of calligraphic markings by Zarzella and a long interview of Young by Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Self-Similar Melodies / Johnson, Tom., 1996

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Identifier: CC-32756-34347
Scope and Contents

Johnson explains the logical and mathematical techniques he uses in his musical compositions including finite and infinite automata, paper folding formula, and sequences taken from Pascal's triangle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Sette Fogli: Una Collezione Occulta / Bussotti, Sylvano; Cardew C; Neuhaus M; Boehmer K., 1963

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Identifier: CC-21038-21447
Scope and Contents

Each print is a chamber music piece that was coposed in 1959. According to the editor, "these pieces are intended to evoke immediate and spontaneous interpretation by the players. There is no precise explanation of markings, a given marking is self-explanatory, or is explained by virtue of its 'magic' origin. The degree of paralelismthat can be attained between signs and their acoustic realization will create the occult attraction of every imaginative realization process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Seven Miniatures OP. XIV / Phillips, Tom., 1970

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Identifier: CC-30119-31517
Scope and Contents

Although the colophon is numbered 25/100, Phillips signed the work 14/100. One of the prints is taken from Phillips' opera "Irma" and has Humument imagery. The prints feature stencilled, empty letters characteristic of one of Phillips' styles. These are depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 260-261. Phillips mentions that this wotk was first performed by John Tilbury in 1971. The Humument fragments read "quite high - intonation devine time (top print) and "tr - Low and high divisions - s- the hiss of cheeks (bottom print). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970