| Notes: | "The alvin curran fakebook is an atypical autobiography in notated compositions, a journey through my musical thought and practice within and without the system. Not just sheet music but a multifaceted compendium, richly designed with photos, writings, and sketches, for anyone to pick through, enjoy, and make their own. The more than 200 works range from raw sonic materials to conceptual musics, fragments, suggestions, itineraries, and completed compositions, containing no secret codes other than my own DNA. They can be played as is, recomposed, looped, arranged, freely improvised on, remixed, layered, spatialized, staged, troped on, or tripped on. A resource and source of pleasure for composers, performers, improvisers, sound artists, scholars, teachers of composition and improvisation, fans, amateurs, terminal avant-gardists, bloggers, buskers, and art book lovers"--Composer's website.
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| Summary: | "Alvin Curran has realized a long and fruitful career as a composer, performer, installation artist, writer, and teacher in the American experimental music tradition. He studied with Ron Nelson, Elliott Carter, and Mel Powell, and co-founded the group Musica Elettronica Viva in 1966 in Rome where he currently resides. His music, whether chamber works, radio-art, large scale environmental theater or solo performance, embraces all sounds, all spaces, and all people. This illustrated anthology of compositions, musical fragments, and instruction pieces is intended to be enjoyed and used by adventurous musicians both literate and unlettered, scholars, teachers of composition and improvisation, and anyone interested in the evolution of art-music in our time."--Page 4 of cover
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