Cornelius Cardew
These are excerpts of the musical notation of 'Treatise' by Cornelius Cardew.
Go HERE
for more info and follow the links, especially THIS one.
"Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance." - John Tilbury
"Graphic music or graphic notation came out of attempts by composers in the 50's to articulate a different relationship of music/sound to composer and musician. Composers like Brown, Cage, Feldman, Wolff and others were part of a sea change that enabled multiplicity to grow out of the modernist framework." - Kerry Andrews
"A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated."
- Cornelius Cardew
'Treatise' (Pages 82 - 84)
as performed by:
Keith Rowe: guitar, electronics
Tetuzi Akiyama: amplified acoustic guitar
Oren Ambarchi: guitar, electronics
Toshimaru Nakamura: electric guitar
Otomo Yoshihide: electric guitar
Burkhard Stangl: acoustic and electric guitars
Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar
(Many years ago I found some similar pieces in the basement of the LMC in Camden and like almost everything else I wish that I still had them (and my almost complete collection of 'Musics'.)
In fact I once sent off a bundle to Chuck Wood in New York who I had met when he was playing with Richard Hell, the idea being that he would send me a copy of Theresa Stern's book of poems 'Wanna Go Out?' of which at the time (early eighties) there were apparently lots of copies under Mr. Hell's bed...not going to ask how Chuck knew this! Anyway the outcome was that no copy of the book ever arrived and although I have since got a copy having bought it from Hell when he came to Melbourne in the early 90's but for that Mr. Wood, you get the first and probably last 'Exile - Cunt of a Lifetime Award' )
Go HERE
for more info and follow the links, especially THIS one.
"Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance." - John Tilbury
"Graphic music or graphic notation came out of attempts by composers in the 50's to articulate a different relationship of music/sound to composer and musician. Composers like Brown, Cage, Feldman, Wolff and others were part of a sea change that enabled multiplicity to grow out of the modernist framework." - Kerry Andrews
"A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated."
- Cornelius Cardew
'Treatise' (Pages 82 - 84)
as performed by:
Keith Rowe: guitar, electronics
Tetuzi Akiyama: amplified acoustic guitar
Oren Ambarchi: guitar, electronics
Toshimaru Nakamura: electric guitar
Otomo Yoshihide: electric guitar
Burkhard Stangl: acoustic and electric guitars
Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar
(Many years ago I found some similar pieces in the basement of the LMC in Camden and like almost everything else I wish that I still had them (and my almost complete collection of 'Musics'.)
In fact I once sent off a bundle to Chuck Wood in New York who I had met when he was playing with Richard Hell, the idea being that he would send me a copy of Theresa Stern's book of poems 'Wanna Go Out?' of which at the time (early eighties) there were apparently lots of copies under Mr. Hell's bed...not going to ask how Chuck knew this! Anyway the outcome was that no copy of the book ever arrived and although I have since got a copy having bought it from Hell when he came to Melbourne in the early 90's but for that Mr. Wood, you get the first and probably last 'Exile - Cunt of a Lifetime Award' )
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