Composers inside electronics: Music after David Tudor

Leonardo Music Journal

Volumn 14, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-2

  Collins, Nicolas ^a  

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EID: 70449817428     PISSN: 09611215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (5)

1. Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939), for piano, cymbals, turntable and test-tone records
2. Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951), for 12 radios; Cartridge Music ( 1960), for phonograph cartridges and contact microphones. Performable electronic instruments existed before Cage's experiments - the Theremin, Ondes Martinot and Hammond Organ, among others - but Cage wanted to free electronic music from the gestural conventions that bound these new devices too closely to traditional performance practice
3. David Tudor and Victor Schonfeld, "From Piano to Electronics," Music and Musicians 20 (August 1972) pp. 24-26
4. See
5. Jeffrey Zygmont, Microchip: An Idea, Its Genesis, and the Revolution It Created (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002)