Madam Press Died Last Week At Ninety – Tendenser i det 20. århundredes musik. Redigeret af Mette Stig Nielsen. North, 1998. 4to. 53 pp. Hft.
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The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…
Fine thorough introduction the work of Robert Ashley with introductory texts and interviews with Ashley and including Scores for “Dust” and “Celestial Excursions” and selection of other works from 1963 to 2008
The lost masterpiece Les Éphémères by the self labeled ‘sound painter’ Knud Viktor (1924-2013) now sees its first ever release by Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology – 40 years after it was conceived. Viktor’s pioneering work – his Images Sonores – are composed of field recordings of insects, animals and his surroundings. His only earlier releases, the much sought-after Images and Ambiances from 1972, were re-issued by Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology in 2017 to great critical acclaim