Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor's Music

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You Nakai (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts)

Reminded by the Instruments

David Tudor's Music

You Nakai (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts)

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Oxford University Press Inc
04 February 2021

Theory of music & musicology; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Electronic musical instruments

David Tudor is remembered today in two guises: as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His early realization of indeterminate graphic scores and his later performances using homemade modular instruments both inspired a whole generation of musicians. But his reticence, his unorthodox approaches, and the diversity of his creative output DL which began with the organ and ended with visual art DL have kept Tudor a puzzle.

Illustrated with more than 300 images of diagrams, schematics, and photographs of Tudor's instruments, Reminded by the Instruments sets out to solve the puzzle of David Tudor by applying Tudor's own methods for approaching the materials of others to the vast archive of materials that he himself left behind. You Nakai deftly patches together instruments, electronic circuits, sketches, diagrams, recordings, letters, receipts, customs declaration forms, and testimonies like modular pieces of a giant puzzle to reveal the long-hidden nature of Tudor's creative process. Rejecting the established narrative of Tudor as a performer-turned-composer, this book presents a lively portrait of an artist whose activity always merged both of these roles. In reading Tudor's electronic devices as musicological 'texts' and examining his idiosyncratic use of electronic circuits, Nakai undermines discourses on sound and illuminates our understanding of the instruments behind the sounds in post-war experimental music.

By: You Nakai (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Kyoto City University of Arts)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 239mm, Spine: 58mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780190686765
ISBN 10: 0190686766
Pages: 768
Publication Date: 04 February 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Input: The Other Side Chapter 1: Piano Chapter 2: Amplified Piano Chapter 3: Sound Systems Chapter 4: Bandoneon! Chapter 5: Pepsi Pavilion Chapter 6: Island Eye Island Ear Chapter 7: Natural Objects Chapter 8: (Likeness to) Voices Chapter 9: Reflections Chapter 10: Neural Syntheses Output: Maps & Fragments Acknowledgments Appendix A: Notable Realizations Appendix B: Rainforest Amplifiers Appendix C: Redrawn Matrix Maps Bibliography Index

You Nakai, Assistant Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts You Nakai creates music(ians), dance(rs), haunted musical houses, nursery rhymes, and other forms of performances as a member of No Collective (nocollective.com) and Already Not Yet (alreadynotyet.org). He is Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo.

Reviews for Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor's Music

You Nakai's book is a remarkable achievement that illuminates the breadth and depth of David Tudor's life and work as a composer-performer. Based on extensive analytical research and interviews with Tudor's surviving creative associates, it charts his evolution from organist and virtuoso pianist to his innovative live-electronic music, ending with his final explorations of sound and space. Engagingly written and eminently readable, this extraordinary study offers fresh insights into Tudor's reclusive personal life and elusive creative complexities. -- Gordon Mumma, composer, Professor Emeritus, University of California