World Food Books

Stockhausen 70 Years
+ Stockhausen-Verlag catalogues c. 1998—2001

1998—2001, English
Softcover (staple-bound w. 7 additional loose leaf catalogues + postcard), 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Stockhausen-Verlag / Kürten

$65.00 - Out of stock

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1998 English-language catalogue publication issued on the 70th birthday of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, offering a complete and detailed "work list of the 253 individually performable Stockhausen compositions and a list of all compact discs of the Complete Edition which have been released to date". A valuable resource of detailed information on Stockhausen's compositions, the work list is accompanied by a list of then-current European musicians who were performing Stockhausen's works, excerpt from Stockhausen's On The Evolution of Music, plus colour photographic studio portraits of the composer. Plus, a bonus additional 7 collected mail-out catalogues from Stockhausen-Verlag dating between 1998—2001 and a Stockhausen-Verlag postcard, all included in this copy.

Good copy, publications with some light rippling to bottom front cover, general light wear/bending/age for postal materials.

File under: Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen Stockhausen-Verlag / Kürten Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Notations 21
by Theresa Sauer

2009, English
Hardcover, 318 pages,‎ 22.5 x 28.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mark Batty / US

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Exceptionally rare, collectible first edition hardcover volume of Notations 21, the anthology drawing inspiration from John Cage's Notations. Notations 21 features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 composers from every continent, all of whom are innovators in the art of notation. Each score is accompanied by written contributions from the artists, explaining how the music manifested visually, exploring every facet of their creative processes, from inspiration to execution. Contributors include the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Earle Brown, Halim El-Dabh, Joan La Barbara, and Yuji Takahashi, as well as emerging composers whose compositions are visually astounding and important. In the spirit of honuoring the 40th anniversary of Cage's seminal book, while furthering it in a 21st century context, a portion of the sales of this book were donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts.

Includes: Victor Adan, Beth Anderson, Kerry John Andrews, Steve Antosca, Cecilia Arditto, Robert Ashley, Kevin Austin, Trevor Bača, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Steve Beck, Irene Becker, Cathy Berberian, David Berezan, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Philip Blackburn, Benjamin Boretz, Sam Britton, Earle Brown, Herbert Brün, Ellen Burr, John Cage, Allison Cameron, Joe Catalano, Raven Chacon, Chris Chalfant, Jef Chippewa, Kyong Mee Choi, Henrik Colding-Jørgensen, Nick Collins, David Cope, Philip Corner, Brent Michael Davids, Tina Davidson, Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King, Robert Denham, Halim El-Dabh, Robert Erickson, Pozzi Escot, Julio Estrada, Rajmil Fischman, Robert Fleisher, Christopher Fox, Bruce L. Friedman, Guillermo Galindo, Malcolm Goldstein, Daniel Goode, Guillermo Gregorio, Barry Guy, Barbara Heller, Brian Heller, William Hellermann, Mara Helmuth, Sven Hermann, Christoph Herndler, Alan Hilario, Robin Hoffmann, Peter Hölscher, Tsai-yun Huang, Christoph Illing, Lynn Dob, David Evan Jones, John Kannenberg, Suk-Dun Kim, Panayiotis Kokoras, Slavek Kwi, Joan La Barbara, John Lane, Mark Lanqford, Hope Lee, Cheryl E. Leonard, Charlotte Lindvang, Anestis Logothetis, Bent Lorentzen, Martin Sebastian Loyato, Michael Maierhor, Tyler Mains, Keeril Makan, Dan Marmorstein, Dimitris Maronidis, Tony Martin, Kate Maxwell, Cilia McQueen, Rajesh Mehta, Ann MiUikan, Rene Mogensen, Stephen Montague, Robert Morris, Gordon Mumma, Gaël Navard, Phill NibLock, Gary Noland, Makoto Nomura, Eoin O'Keeffe, Pauline Oliveros - Vagn E. Olsson, Paul Paccione, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Brice Pauset, Tommaso Perego, Joe Pignato, Jonathan Pitkin, Samuel Pluta, Larry Polansky, Alwynne Pritchard, Anthony J. Ptak, Takayuki Rai, Randy Raine-Reusch, Jon Raskin, Henrik Ehland Rasmussen, Herman Rechberger, Will Redman, Wendy Reid, Steve Roden, Dirk Rodney, Keren Rosenbaum, David Rosenboom, Marina Rosenfeld, Daniel Rothman, Theresa Sauer, R. Murray Schafer, León Schidlowsky, Catherine Schieve, Daniel Schnee, Brian Schorn, Barry Schrader, Phillip Schulze, Michael J. Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Marilyn Shrude, Stuart Saunders Smith, Juan Maria Solare, Mathias Spahlinger, Jack W. Stamps, John Stead, Norbert Stein, Hans-Christoph Steiner, Peter Sterk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Stump, Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi, Justinian Tamusuza, John Tchicai, James Tenney, Voya Tonecitch, Laura Toxvaerd, Jeffrey Trevino, Andrea Vaile, J. Simon van der Walt, Ivan Vincze, Stephen Vitiello, Douglas C. Wadle, Jennifer Walshe, Clive Wilkinson, Michael Winter, René Wohlhauser, Ge-Suk Yeo, David Young, Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn, Judith Lang Zaimont, Edson Zampronha, Peter Zombola, Jonathan Zorn, Richard Carlyon, Philip and Gayle Neuman, Morgan O'Hara...

As New copy.

File under: Victor Adan Beth Anderson Kerry John Andrews Steve Antosca Cecilia Arditto Robert Ashley Kevin Austin Trevor Bača Dennis Báthory-Kitsz Steve Beck Irene Becker Cathy Berberian David Berezan Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen Philip Blackburn Benjamin Boretz Sam Britton Earle Brown Herbert Brün Ellen Burr John Cage Allison Cameron Joe Catalano Raven Chacon Chris Chalfant Jef Chippewa Kyong Mee Choi Henrik Colding-Jørgensen Nick Collins David Cope Philip Corner Brent Michael Davids Tina Davidson Mario Diaz de Leon and Jay King Robert Denham Halim El-Dabh Robert Erickson Pozzi Escot Julio Estrada Rajmil Fischman Robert Fleisher Christopher Fox Bruce L. Friedman Guillermo Galindo Malcolm Goldstein Daniel Goode Guillermo Gregorio Barry Guy Barbara Heller Brian Heller William Hellermann Mara Helmuth Sven Hermann Christoph Herndler Alan Hilario Robin Hoffmann Peter Hölscher Tsai-yun Huang Christoph Illing Lynn Dob David Evan Jones John Kannenberg Suk-Dun Kim Panayiotis Kokoras Slavek Kwi Joan La Barbara John Lane Mark Lanqford Hope Lee Cheryl E. Leonard Charlotte Lindvang Anestis Logothetis Bent Lorentzen Martin Sebastian Loyato Michael Maierhor Tyler Mains Keeril Makan Dan Marmorstein Dimitris Maronidis Tony Martin Kate Maxwell Cilia McQueen Rajesh Mehta Ann MiUikan Rene Mogensen Stephen Montague Robert Morris Gordon Mumma Gaël Navard Phill NibLock Gary Noland Makoto Nomura Eoin O'Keeffe Paul Paccione Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri Brice Pauset Tommaso Perego Joe Pignato Jonathan Pitkin Samuel Pluta Larry Polansky Alwynne Pritchard Anthony J. Ptak Takayuki Rai Randy Raine-Reusch Jon Raskin Henrik Ehland Rasmussen Herman Rechberger Will Redman Wendy Reid Steve Roden Dirk Rodney Keren Rosenbaum David Rosenboom Marina Rosenfeld Daniel Rothman Theresa Sauer R. Murray Schafer León Schidlowsky Catherine Schieve Daniel Schnee Brian Schorn Barry Schrader Phillip Schulze Michael J. Schumacher Elliott Sharp Marilyn Shrude Stuart Saunders Smith Juan Maria Solare Mathias Spahlinger Jack W. Stamps John Stead Norbert Stein Hans-Christoph Steiner Peter Sterk Karlheinz Stockhausen John Stump Chiyoko Szlavnics - Yuji Takahashi Justinian Tamusuza John Tchicai James Tenney Voya Tonecitch Laura Toxvaerd Jeffrey Trevino Andrea Vaile J. Simon van der Walt Ivan Vincze Stephen Vitiello Douglas C. Wadle Jennifer Walshe Clive Wilkinson Michael Winter René Wohlhauser Ge-Suk Yeo David Young Katherine Young and Jonathan Zorn Judith Lang Zaimont Edson Zampronha Peter Zombola Jonathan Zorn Richard Carlyon Philip and Gayle Neuman Morgan O'Hara Pauline Oliveros Theresa Sauer Mark Batty / US Sound / Music Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Concrete Poetry

Roboard pfestival 1991

1991, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 20 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Institute of Sonology / The Hague

$25.00 - In stock -

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Very rare publication issued on the occasion of the Roboard pfestival 1991, organised by The Institute of Sonology, a research center for electronic and computer music based at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands. An evening of music for computer-driven piano players, featuring the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, László Vidovszky, Angela Hommes, Włodzimierz Kotoński, Edwin van der Heide, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Wilfried Jentzsch, Friedhelm Hartmann, Conlon Nancarrow, Sabine Schäfer, James Tenney, Tom Johnson, Hubert Mechanik, Kevin Volans, Clarence Barlow, Eric Lyon, Masahiro Miwa, Steve Reich, and more. With computer-generated portraits, bios, and blurbs on all of the composers and compositions performed in the programme, including an introduction by Clarence Barlow.

VG copy. Small marking to cover.

File under: Karlheinz Stockhausen László Vidovszky Angela Hommes Włodzimierz Kotoński Edwin van der Heide Kiyoshi Furukawa Wilfried Jentzsch Friedhelm Hartmann Conlon Nancarrow Sabine Schäfer James Tenney Tom Johnson Hubert Mechanik Kevin Volans Clarence Barlow Eric Lyon Masahiro Miwa Steve Reich The Institute of Sonology / The Hague Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Art Minimal Art

Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
by Cornelius Cardew

1974, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 125 pages, 22 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Latimer / London

$350.00 - In stock -

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Rare very first 1974 hardcover edition of Stockhausen Serves Imperialism by Cornelius Cardew, published by Latimer, London.

The American composer and writer John Cage, born 1912, and the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, born 1928, have emerged as the leading figures of the bourgeois musical avant-garde. They are ripe for criticism. The grounds for launching an attack against them are twofold: first to isolate them from their respective schools and thus release a number of younger composers from their domination and encourage these to turn their attention to the problems of serving the working people, and second, to puncture the illusion that the bourgeoisie is still capable of producing “geniuses.” —Cornelius Cardew

Originally published in 1974, Stockhausen Serves Imperialism is a collection of essays by the English composer Cornelius Cardew that provides a Marxist critique of two of the more revered avant-garde composers of the post-war era: Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

A former assistant to Stockhausen and a champion of Cage in England, Cardew provides a cutting rebuke of the composers’ works and ideological positions, which he saw as reinforcing an imperialist order rather than spotlighting and serving the struggles of the working class. The author also provides constructive criticism of his contemporaries Christian Wolff and Frederic Rzewski for utilizing politically progressive content, yet failing to work in a musical form that would appeal to the proletariat. Cardew’s music does not escape his own scrutiny: the book contains critiques and repudiations of his canonical compositions from the 1960s and early 1970s, Treatise and The Great Learning. After abandoning the avant-garde, Cardew devoted his work to the people’s struggle, creating music in service of his radical politics until his mysterious death in 1981.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket. Light tanning to jacket, internally tanned due to paper type. Beautifully preserved unread copy.

File under: Cornelius Cardew Karlheinz Stockhausen Scratch Orchestra Latimer / London Sound / Music Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Art

Harmonies of Heaven and Earth : The Spiritual Dimension of Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde
By Joscelyn Godwin

1987, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 208 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce original 1987 hardcover edition of Harmonies of Heaven and Earth, published by Thames & Hudson, London. Joscelyn Godwin explores music's effects on matter, living things, and human behavior. Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theories of celestial harmony, the author follows the path of musical inspiration on its descent to Earth, illuminating the archetypal currents that lie beneath Western musical history.

The power of music is spiritual. It is, for many people, the principal point of access to a consciousness beyond that of ordinary life. Musicians and listeners alike can read analyses of the physics or the psychology, the technique or the history of music; but there is a contemporary need, as Joscelyn Godwin reveals in this challenging book, for informed discussion of the almost too obvious fact that there is something supernatural in musical experience. This is that universal dimension of which Plato, Kepler, Rameau and Novalis wrote, and of which Wagner said: 'I feel that I am one with this vibrating Force, that it is omniscient, and that I can draw upon it to an extent that is limited only by my own capacity." The spiritual power of music surfaces in folklore, myth and mystical experience, refusing as music always does- to be bound by narrow rationalism. It embraces Heaven as well as Earth, the music of the spheres as well as the music that is played and sung.

Joscelyn Godwin begins his closely argued study with music's perceived effects on matter, on plants, on animals and on human behaviour. He then turns inward, to the absorbing accounts that have been given of the higher worlds that are the birthplace of Harmony, and of the realm of pure Intelligence which lies both within and beyond. To hear music, however, we need composers and performers, and the argument then follows Harmony on its descent from Heaven to Earth. This descent takes place in the musician's inspiration, in the listener's experience, and in the world at large; for archetypal currents run beneath the surface of musical history, in the centuries that encompass the polyphony of Perotin or J.S. Bach and the psychic impact of Webern, Stockhausen and rock'n'roll. A self-contained final section embodies the fullest account ever given of ancient and modern theoretical systems of celestial harmony, from Pythagoras to Marius Schneider, Rudolf Steiner and Gurdjieff.

Joscelyn Godwin was born in Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England on January 16, 1945. He was educated as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, then at Radley College (Music Scholar), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Music Scholar; B.A., 1965, Mus. B., 1966, M.A. 1969). Coming to the USA in 1966, he did graduate work in Musicology at Cornell University (Ph. D., 1969; dissertation: "The Music of Henry Cowell") and taught at Cleveland State University for two years before joining the Colgate University Music Department in 1971. He has taught at Colgate ever since.

Near Fine in VG—NF dust jacket. Beautifully preserved, unread.

File under: Karlheinz Stockhausen Jean-Philippe Rameau Pérotin Johann Sebastian Bach Anton Webern Plato Johannes Kepler Rudolf Steiner Joscelyn Godwin Novalis George Gurdjieff Marius Schneider Thames and Hudson / London Theory / Essay Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy Art Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Occult / Esoterica

Ocean of Sound : Aether Talk, Ambient Sounds and Imaginary Worlds
by David Toop

1995 / 1996, English
Softcover, 306 pages, 21 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Serpent's Tail / London

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Extremely rare first edition of the classic account of ambient music by English musician, author, curator, and professor, David Toop. David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to virtual Las Vegas, from David Lynch's house, high in the Hollywood Hills to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of (and interviews with) artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Aphex Twin, Lee Perry, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an exhilarating, path-breaking account of ambient sound, from new rhythmic and tonal influences to the sounds of war, machines, and the new digital revolution.

"A meditation on the development of modern music, there's no single term that is adequate to describe what Toop has accomplished here ... mixing interviews, criticism, history, and memory, Toop moves seamlessly between sounds, styles, genres, and eras"—Pitchfork's '60 Favourite Music Books'

Very Good copy. First edition, second print run.

File under: Brian Eno Sun Ra Erik Satie Aphex Twin Lee Perry Ryuichi Sakamoto Kate Bush Kraftwerk Brian Wilson Karlheinz Stockhausen Harold Budd Edgard Varèse Frank Zappa The Velvet Underground La Monte Young Terry Riley Basil Kirchin Jon Hassell John Coltrane Phill Niblock John McLaughlin Alvin Lucier Manuel Göttsching Ash Ra Temple Peter Brötzmann David Bowie John Cage William S. Burroughs Don Cherry Cocteau Twins Ornette Coleman Gavin Bryars Miles Davis Ira Cohen Alice Coltrane Morton Feldman Alvin Curran Eric Dolphy Herbie Hancock Joe Meek Roland Kirk Claude Debussy Deep Listening Band Bill Evans Julee Cruise Biosphere LTJ Bukem Marian Zazeela Duke Ellington Albert Ayler AMM The Beatles Beach Boys Chet Baker Les Baxter Antonin Artaud Hakim Bey Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) Joris-Karl Huysmans Gustave Flaubert Antonin Artaud Jacques Attali J.G. Ballard Philip K. Dick H. P. Lovecraft Serpent's Tail / London Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Minimal Art

Industrial Revolution
by Dave Thompson

1993, English
Softcover, 138 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Cleopatra Records / Los Angeles

$80.00 - Out of stock

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1993 edition of Industrial Revolution, "the A—Z of Industrial Music", published by Dave Thompson and Cleopatra Records, Los Angeles at the label's inception in 1992, and at the dawn of the Industrial Music commercial boom of the 1990s. Regarded as the essential guide to a musical form that promised, at one point, to become the dominant force of the decade, the encyclopedic "Industrial Revolution" is a far cry from comprehensive, but Thompson's survey of the individual artists, "from Kraftwerk to Throbbing Gristle to Ministry", and various movements that developed and represented the field, remains an important volume on a seldom studied musical phenomenon, introducing a musical tendency to a wider (overground) audience. Heavily illustrated throughout in an encyclopaedia format, artist listings include a wealth of biographic information, discographies, exclusive interviews, b/w studio, press, live photographs... Includes Chrome, Suicide, Z'ev, Christian Death, Sleep Chamber, Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Ministry, Amon Düül 2, Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus, Chris and Cosey, Laibach, Front 242, Robert Fripp, Current 93, Boyd Rice, Crash Worship, Neu, Meat Beat Manifesto, Magma, Clock DVA, Velvet Underground, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Test Department, John Cale, Dome, Psychic TV, Frontline Assembly, SPK, Cluster, Godflesh, The Hafler Trio, PiL, This Heat, Savage Republic, Brian Eno, La Monte Young, The Flying Lizards, Swans, Terry Riley, DAF, Robert Calvert/Hawkwind, Can, The Residents, Fred Frith/Henry Cow, Colin Newman/Wire, Skinny Puppy, Killing Joke, Leather Nun, Nine Inch Nails, Kraftwerk, Legendary Pink Dots, Alien Sex Fiend, Cop Shoot Cop... plus more, you get the picture.

Good copy with some cover/corner wear.

File under: Chrome Suicide Z'ev Christian Death Sleep Chamber Throbbing Gristle Coil Ministry Amon Düül 2 Einstürzende Neubauten Foetus Chris and Cosey Laibach Front 242 Robert Fripp King Crimson Crash Worship Neu Meat Beat Manifesto Magma Clock DVA Velvet Underground Karlheinz Stockhausen Test Department John Cale Dome Psychic TV Frontline Assembly SPK Cluster Godflesh The Hafler Trio PiL This Heat Savage Republic Brian Eno La Monte Young The Flying Lizards Swans Terry Riley DAF Robert Calvert Hawkwind Can The Residents Fred Frith Henry Cow Colin Newman Wire Skinny Puppy Killing Joke Leather Nun Kraftwerk Legendary Pink Dots Nine Inch Nails Alien Sex Fiend Cop Shoot Cop Dave Thompson Cleopatra Records / Los Angeles Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
by Cornelius Cardew

2020, English
Softcover, 126 pages, 14 x 22.2 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

$40.00 - Out of stock

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The American composer and writer John Cage, born 1912, and the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, born 1928, have emerged as the leading figures of the bourgeois musical avant-garde. They are ripe for criticism. The grounds for launching an attack against them are twofold: first to isolate them from their respective schools and thus release a number of younger composers from their domination and encourage these to turn their attention to the problems of serving the working people, and second, to puncture the illusion that the bourgeoisie is still capable of producing “geniuses.” —Cornelius Cardew

Originally published in 1974, Stockhausen Serves Imperialism is a collection of essays by the English composer Cornelius Cardew that provides a Marxist critique of two of the more revered avant-garde composers of the post-war era: Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

A former assistant to Stockhausen and a champion of Cage in England, Cardew provides a cutting rebuke of the composers’ works and ideological positions, which he saw as reinforcing an imperialist order rather than spotlighting and serving the struggles of the working class. The author also provides constructive criticism of his contemporaries Christian Wolff and Frederic Rzewski for utilizing politically progressive content, yet failing to work in a musical form that would appeal to the proletariat. Cardew’s music does not escape his own scrutiny: the book contains critiques and repudiations of his canonical compositions from the 1960s and early 1970s, Treatise and The Great Learning. After abandoning the avant-garde, Cardew devoted his work to the people’s struggle, creating music in service of his radical politics until his mysterious death in 1981.

Edition of 2500.

File under: Cornelius Cardew Karlheinz Stockhausen Cornelius Cardew Primary Information / New York Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Krautrock : Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy

2009, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 27 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Black Dog Publishing Ltd / London

$190.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the quickly out-of-print, now rarely seen Krautrock : Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy. One of the greatest books on the subject.

The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthroughs, upheavals and reversals. Communes were spreading, protests organised throughout the entire country, the desire to begin everything anew permeating the young. Out of this climate, a music scene exploded that would forever change the face of western rock; at times anarchic, at others mystical, magickal, or utopian, it pushed rock beyond any known limits. Never a genre or a movement per se, Krautrock encompassed a very wild and diverse range of sounds, attitudes, and past musics, from free jazz to Karlheinz Stockhausen, from dada to Fluxus, from German Romanticism to the Mothers of Invention. The musicians operated outside any known categories, breaking new ground and turning their backs to both their country's past and the conventions of Anglo-American rock. Their vision fired the imaginations of generations of musicians after them: Cabaret Voltaire, Brian Eno, Nurse with Wound, PiL, DAF, Einsturzende Neubauten, to only name a few, have all acknowledged their deb to Krautrock's uncompromising ethics and innovative sounds. Profiling diverse key musical groups of the period, including Amon Düül (I & II), Can, Faust, Ash Ra Temple, Gila, Limbus, Walter Wegmüller, Cluster, Popol Vuh, Xhol, Between/Hamel, Guru Guru, Anima, Et Cetera/Wolfgang Dauner, Agitation Free, Harmonia, Embryo, Tangerine Dream, and many more, alongside the key producers (Plank, Dirks, Augustin, Kaiser) and records labels (Brain, Pilz, OHR, Kuckuck, etc.), and also a timeline of the period, this book quickly became a valuable resource. Profusely illustrated with with concert, studio and press photos, posters, record cover art and other rare visual material. Texts by Archie Patterson, Michel Faber, Erik Davis, David Stubbs, David Keenan, Ken Hollings, Brian Morton, Steve Krakow, Mark Pilkington, Gavin Russom, Stephen Thrower, and Ann Shenton make this is an essential compendium to a music whose spirit and ideas still vibrate through contemporary culture today. Quite a must, now rarely seen.

Edited by Nikolaos Kotsopoulos.

Very Good copy.

File under: Can Neu! Faust Kraftwerk Amon Düül Ash Ra Temple Gila Limbus Walter Wegmüller Cluster Popol Vuh Xhol Caravan Between/Peter Michael Hamel Guru Guru Agitation Free Harmonia Embryo Tangerine Dream Conny Plank Dieter Dierks Anima Cosmic Jokers Uli Trepte Klaus Schulze Achim Reichel Nektar La Düsseldorf Sergius Golowin Floh De Cologne Et Cetera/Wolfgang Dauner Karlheinz Stockhausen Mothers of Invention Nikolaos Kotsopoulos Archie Patterson Michel Faber Erik Davis David Stubbs David Keenan Ken Hollings Brian Morton Steve Krakow Mark Pilkington Gavin Russom Stephen Thrower Ann Shenton Black Dog Publishing Ltd / London Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Counterculture

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Texte (1962-64/69) Momente

1993, German / English
Softcover, 32 pages, 29 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Stockhausen-Verlag / Kürten

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First edition of Texte der MOMENTE : für Solosopran, 4 Chorgrupppen und 13 Instrumentalisten (for solo soprano, 4 choir groups and 13 instrumentalists); Europa Version 1972, published in 1993 by Stockhausen Verlag, Kürten, Germany. Introduction in English and German, score and original manuscript primarily in German, with some English words. Long out of print.

Momente (Moments) is a work by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written between 1962 and 1969, scored for solo soprano, four mixed choirs, and thirteen instrumentalists (four trumpets, four trombones, three percussionists, and two electric keyboards). A "cantata with radiophonic and theatrical overtones", it is described by the composer as "practically an opera of Mother Earth surrounded by her chicks". It was Stockhausen's first piece composed on principles of modular transposability, and his first musical form to be determined from categories of sensation or perception rather than by numerical units of musical terminology, which marks a significant change in the composer's musical approach from the abstract forms of the 1950s.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance (aleatory techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.

Very Good-Fine copy.

File under: Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen Stockhausen-Verlag / Kürten Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Hymnen : Elektronische und Konkrete Musik Nr. 22

1977, English / German / French
Softcover, 72 pages, 31 x 23.4 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Universal Edition / Vienna

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare original published score accompaniment to Karlheinz Stockhausen's (1928—2007) Hymnen : Elektronische und Konkrete Musik, "intended to be read while listening to the tape or the record"—Introduction. First edition, second issue, published in 1977 by Viennese Universal Edition, and printed in Vienna from Stockhausen's manuscript — the transcription of the tape was made by Stockhausen using earphones, piano and a stopwatch. Texts in English, German, and French, including programme notes from the world premiere in Cologne in 1967, disposition, supplementary commentary for the DGG record, August 1968, and the complete score. English translations by Australian musicologist and a former teaching assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Toop. Long out of print.

Hymnen (German for "Anthems") is an electronic and concrete work, with optional live performers, by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1966–67, and elaborated in 1969. In the composer's catalog of works, it is No. 22. Hymnen is a massive tape soundscape based on samples of 40 national anthems, various field recordings of public events, a few dialogue "inserts", shortwave radio noise and synthesized sound (from sine and pulse generators) to create a kind of "portrait of humanity" as it melts together, bursts apart, and then is reborn as a new utopian entity.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance (aleatory techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.

Very Good copy.

File under: Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen Richard Toop Universal Edition / Vienna Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare

Electronic Music in Japan 1955-1981
by Yuji Tanaka

1998, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi), 704 pages, 21.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ASCII Co. / Tokyo

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare first edition of this bible on Electronic Music in Japan (1955-1981) by author and analogue synth collector Yuji Tanaka, published in 1998, who later also published the great follow-up "Electronic Music in the Lost World". At over 700 pages, this is the heaviest study we've ever seen on the development of electronic music in Japan, from the composers around the NHK experimental music studio (Toshiro Mayuzumi, Makoto Moroi, Minao Shibata...), the 1970 Osaka Expo, Tomita, Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) and Haruomi Hosono, Toru Takemitsu, Flied Egg, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yuji Takahashi, Phew, and all between. As much about the art as the technology, this extensive chronology and discography is richly illustrated with 100s of images of LPs, but also the analogue synths and the studios themselves, making for a valuable resource on both the artists and engineers that pushed the boundaries of electric composition in Japan across avant-garde, library, ambient, fusion, soundtrack, prog, pop, disco... Includes loads of international content for context within the timeline (Xenakis, Stockhausen, Weather Report, White Noise, Ron Geesin, Tangerine Dream...) A huge labor of electronic love laid out on Wasp yellow paper stock throughout, including the original Synthesizer graphic dust jacket and obi. Warning : all text are in Japanese!

Very Good copy with original DJ and Obi-strip.

File under: Tomita Iannis Xenakis Karlheinz Stockhausen Holger Czukay Kraftwerk Weather Report Isao Tomita Ruth White Robert Moog Silver Apples White Noise Toshiro Mayuzumi Makoto Moroi Minao Shibata Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) Haruomi Hosono Phew Flied Egg Ron Geesin Tangerine Dream The Flying Lizards David Cunningham Brian Eno Yuji Tanaka ASCII Co. / Tokyo Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art

The Music Of Stockhausen
by Jonathan Harvey

1975, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 144 pages, 25.5 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Faber & Faber / London

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover edition of The Music Of Stockhausen by Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012). This crucial and comprehensive book from 1975 looks at and decrypts the early work of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007). "This important and innovatory study of Stockhausen's music makes available for the first time systematic analyses of his works. Dr Jonathan Harvey comprehensively surveys the periods into which Stockhausen's music falls, from the early post-Webern works and group-form works, of which 'Gruppen' is a famous and brilliant example, to the subsequent moment-form works and the later period, which includes text-works (like 'Aus den sieben Tagen') and works like 'Hymnen', in which the composer would seem to be communicating on a quasi-mystical level. This is an indispensable book for the serious student of twentieth-century music and for anyone else with a lively interest in the new forms and sonorities of the preset day, their technology and the creative doctrines which gave birth to them." - from the dust jacket.

Includes a full list of compositions up to 1974, an appendix on Mantra (1970), a bibliography and full discography. The most comprehensive of published works on Stockhausen.

Very Good copy with good dj, some edge-wear and tanning.

File under: Karlheinz Stockhausen Jonathan Harvey Faber & Faber / London Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Softcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.

File under: A.R. Penck AA Bronson Agnes Martin Alain Robbe-Grillet Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer Alfred Hitchcock Alighiero Boetti Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow André Masson Andy Warhol Anne Truitt Ant Farm Anthony Caro Barbara Kruger Barnett Newman Brice Marden Bruce Conner Bruno Taut Carl Andre Chris Burden Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Dan Flavin Dan Graham Daniel Buren David Hockney David Smith Diane Arbus Donald Judd Dorothea Rockburne Douglas Huebler Edward Kienholz El Lissitzky Ellsworth Kelly Eva Hesse Francis Bacon Francis Picabia Frank Stella Gerrit Rietveld Hairy Who Hans Haacke Henri Matisse Hollis Frampton Irving Penn Jackson Pollock James Rosenquist Jannis Kounellis Jasper Johns Jean Cocteau Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jo Baer Joan Jonas John Cage John Chamberlain John McCracken Jörg Immendorff Josef Albers Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Karlheinz Stockhausen Ken Price Kenneth Noland Kurt Schwitters Larry Bell Larry Poons Lawrence Weiner Lee Bontecou Louise Bourgeois Louise Nevelson Lucas Samaras Lucio Fontana Luis Buñuel Lynda Benglis Marc Chagall Marcel Breuer Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mario Merz Mark Rothko Markus Lupertz Martial Raysse Max Bill Max Ernst Mel Bochner Michael Snow Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman On Kawara Pablo Picasso Paul Cézanne Paul Klee Paul Wunderlich Philip Glass Ree Morton René Magritte Richard Avedon Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Grosvenor Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Robert Ryman Robert Smithson Robert Venturi Roberto Matta Roman Polanski Roy Lichtenstein Saul Steinberg Sol Lewitt Sonia Delaunay Steve Reich Terry Fox Walker Evans Walter de Maria Walter Gropius Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Michelangelo Antonioni Jean Arp (Hans Arp) James Lee Byars Merce Cunningham Oskar Schlemmer Gilbert & George Robert Barry Eduardo Paolozzi Ad Reinhardt Agnes Martin Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Anselm Kiefer Barbara Kruger Barbara Rose Billy Kluver Boris Groys Carl Andre Carter Ratcliff Cindy Nemser Claes Oldenburg Dan Flavin Dan Graham Dennis Adrian Don Factor Donald Kuspit Ed Ruscha Edit De Ak Hal Foster Harold Rosenberg Henry Geldzahler Henry T. Hopkins Hilton Kramer Hollis Frampton Ingrid Sischy J. Hoberman Jane Livingston Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe John Cage John Coplans Kate Steinitz Kathy Acker Kenneth Baker Laurie Anderson Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Weiner Lizzie Borden Louise Bourgeois Lucy R. Lippard Lynda Benglis Manny Farber Max Kozloff Mel Bochner Michael Fried Peter Plagens Peter Schjeldahl Philip Leider Richard Flood Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Rosenblum Roberta Smith Roger Shattuck Roy Lichtenstein Sam Wagstaff Sidney Tillim Stuart Morgan Thomas McEvilley Walter De Maria Walter Hopps Rosalind E. Krauss Bertolt Brecht U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Counterculture Curatorial Dada Drawing Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First, hardcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

Very uncommon hardcover edition, with dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good (light wear to very good book and dust jacket, protected under acid-free plastic wrap. Small ex-library markings, stickers) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: A.R. Penck AA Bronson Agnes Martin Alain Robbe-Grillet Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer Alfred Hitchcock Alighiero Boetti Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow André Masson Andy Warhol Anne Truitt Ant Farm Anthony Caro Barbara Kruger Barnett Newman Brice Marden Bruce Conner Bruno Taut Carl Andre Chris Burden Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Dan Flavin Dan Graham Daniel Buren David Hockney David Smith Diane Arbus Donald Judd Dorothea Rockburne Douglas Huebler Edward Kienholz El Lissitzky Ellsworth Kelly Eva Hesse Francis Bacon Francis Picabia Frank Stella Gerrit Rietveld Hairy Who Hans Haacke Henri Matisse Hollis Frampton Irving Penn Jackson Pollock James Rosenquist Jannis Kounellis Jasper Johns Jean Cocteau Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jo Baer Joan Jonas John Cage John Chamberlain John McCracken Jörg Immendorff Josef Albers Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Karlheinz Stockhausen Ken Price Kenneth Noland Kurt Schwitters Larry Bell Larry Poons Lawrence Weiner Lee Bontecou Louise Bourgeois Louise Nevelson Lucas Samaras Lucio Fontana Luis Buñuel Lynda Benglis Marc Chagall Marcel Breuer Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mario Merz Mark Rothko Markus Lupertz Martial Raysse Max Bill Max Ernst Mel Bochner Michael Snow Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman On Kawara Pablo Picasso Paul Cézanne Paul Klee Paul Wunderlich Philip Glass Ree Morton René Magritte Richard Avedon Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Grosvenor Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Robert Ryman Robert Smithson Robert Venturi Roberto Matta Roman Polanski Roy Lichtenstein Saul Steinberg Sol Lewitt Sonia Delaunay Steve Reich Terry Fox Walker Evans Walter de Maria Walter Gropius Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Michelangelo Antonioni Jean Arp (Hans Arp) James Lee Byars Merce Cunningham Oskar Schlemmer Gilbert & George Robert Barry Eduardo Paolozzi Ad Reinhardt Agnes Martin Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Anselm Kiefer Barbara Kruger Barbara Rose Billy Kluver Boris Groys Carl Andre Carter Ratcliff Cindy Nemser Claes Oldenburg Dan Flavin Dan Graham Dennis Adrian Don Factor Donald Kuspit Ed Ruscha Edit De Ak Hal Foster Harold Rosenberg Henry Geldzahler Henry T. Hopkins Hilton Kramer Hollis Frampton Ingrid Sischy J. Hoberman Jane Livingston Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe John Cage John Coplans Kate Steinitz Kathy Acker Kenneth Baker Laurie Anderson Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Weiner Lizzie Borden Louise Bourgeois Lucy R. Lippard Manny Farber Max Kozloff Mel Bochner Michael Fried Peter Plagens Peter Schjeldahl Philip Leider Richard Flood Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Rosenblum Roberta Smith Roger Shattuck Roy Lichtenstein Sam Wagstaff Sidney Tillim Stuart Morgan Thomas McEvilley Walter De Maria Walter Hopps Rosalind E. Krauss Bertolt Brecht U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Counterculture Curatorial Dada Drawing Fashion Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Hans Ulrich Obrist
A Brief History of New Music

2013, English
Softcover, 302 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich

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Following the success of "A Brief History of Curating" (now available in five different languages, in its fifth reprint, and as an e-book), this publication gathers together interviews with pioneering musicians of the 1950s to the 1980s. The book thus brings together avant-garde composers such as Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, and Karlheinz Stockhausen; originators of electro-acoustic music such as François Bayle, Pauline Oliveros, Iannis Xenakis, Robert Ashley, and Peter Zinovieff; Minimalist and Fluxus-inspired artists such as Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley; as well figures such as Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Arto Lindsay, and Caetano Veloso. Their contributions map the evolution of the musical field, from early experiments in concrete and abstract music, to the electronic development and the hybridization between Pop and avant-garde culture.

Hans Ulrich Obrist (*May 1968) joined the Serpentine Gallery (London) as Co-Director of International Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects in 2006.

The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writings.

"What a generous and incredible documentation of modern composers' minds and spirits!! It reveals their different characters, moods, methods, and more—proper fertile!!!" —Björk

File under: Brian Eno Iannis Xenakis Karlheinz Stockhausen Robert Ashley Steve Reich Terry Riley Tony Conrad Hans Ulrich Obrist JRP Ringier / Zürich Art Curatorial Theory / Essay