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This piece (Opus 10) is depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 255. It is stated that the edition size was 100, but this copy indicates that the size was 150. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of experimental musical scores by Stockhausen and diagramatic art sketches by Friedlaender. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This was described as a sounds amd visual recording project with students and artists collaborating. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes one record [Source Record Number Five] that plays music by Lowell Cross on one side and Arrigo Lora Totino on the other side. Another record [Source Record Number Six] plays music by Alvin Currin on one side and Anna Lockwood on the other side. This issue depicts several electronic schematics for making music. Manford Eaton conributes an essay on Bio Music with the physiologic responses that include GSR, EKG, EEG, EMG, EOG, blood pressure and respiration. Two visual poetry books by Nelson Howe who contributed "Fur Music" are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the "Italian version" of John Cage's book on experimental music scores entitled "Notations." It is international in scope but features works by Italian composers and is complementary to "Notations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This piece was exhibited at the Other Minds 14 performance in San Francisco where Mello performed. It was purchased at a silent auction by the Sackners -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The main image are two juxtaposed grids (5 x 11 & 2 x 11) of black and red inked ideograms with an interposed column of a micrographic calligraphic explanation. On the borders, Melin has drawn columns of music scores. Melin's music scores are conjectured and not intended to be played although in fact, a few have been performed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is an experimental music score with the elements of visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was drawn from the Archive of Paolo Della Grazia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet Joseph Stevenson: The Crown of Ariadne was written for Canadian harpist Judy Loman, who premiered it on March 3, 1979 in Toronto. It was intended as part of Patria 5, which retells the myths of Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur. Ariadne was the daughter of the King of Crete. Periodically the city of Athens was required to send a shipload of youths and maidens to be herded into the labyrinth (a maze so complex it could not be solved) as sacrifice for the Minotaur. By unwinding thread behind her, she was able to lead the group headed by Theseus (with whom she had fallen in love) out after they slew the Minotaur. She eloped with him, but he abandoned her on the Island of Naxos, where she found true love with the god Bacchus.In this piece the harp represents Ariadne. However, the harpist also plays small percussion instruments such as ankle bells, crotales, cymbals, and wood blocks. She must also sing into the harp through a tube, slide the tuning key up and down the strings,...

Scope and Contents This book is a compilation of the texts, scores, and ideas of seven American composers who use words as an integral part of their compositions. The following are excerpts from the seven interviews . . . John Cage: We should study the ways of industry. In order to, ourselves, behave globally, as industry behaves. They do it out of greed. We should do it out of the desire to make the house we live in, which is the whole place, in good working order. Robert Ashley: Its okay to sit in your room and listen to a record over and over again when you're fifteen, but if you do that when you are forty, people think you are crazy. But the funny thing is that we have actually allowed ourselves that free time for television. Yoko Ono: Somehow all the things that come out of me like words or music or whatever seem to be not my doing. It just comes in and I immediately write it down. I don't think of it as talent necessarily. I think of it like a good radio. Laurie Anderson: As these two life...

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This book was designed by Blair Seagram. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the 4th printing of this book first published in 1977 with the title "Tuning of the World." A signed hard cover copy of the 1977 publication is held by the Sackner Archive. Schafer contends that we suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and explores ways to restore our ability to hear the nuances of sounds around us. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mesens initials of his first name stand for Edouard-Leon-Theodore. This book is illustrated with 5 designs by Mesens, the first of which is negativised for the translation, i.e. the French image is a negative of the English positive. The final illustration is an artistic interpretation of a musical score titled "La Partition Complete/The Complete Score." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a collective score by 57 authors for a piano and slide performance. Each contributed a card; these cards are played without interruption, some performed if possible on the piano and others displayed in silence. In the introduction, Lombardi cites historic antecedents to such collaborations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.