Great book. Contains a discography, reviews of selected recordings and sections on the main composers as well as the photos below.
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| Xenakis (right) and Le Corbusier when they created the now legendary Philips pavilion at the Brussels World Fair. |
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| Otto Luening |
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| Ussachevsky and Shostakovitch, the latter thinking 'What a bloody racket' whilst pretending to understand the new music. |
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| Milton Babbitt |
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| Ussachevsky twiddling knobs whilst thinking 'Is Dmitri hip, or was he just pretending?' |
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| Nick Edwards (holding royalty cheque from Unfidelity), Bill Kouligas, Russell Haswell, Luke Younger, Laurel Halo, Yves De Mey, Paul Snowdon, Sean Canty, Miles Whittaker, Mika Vainio and others. |
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| John Cage and Stockhausen in a plane! Wh-e-e-e-e-e! 'Do you know where you're going, John?' 'No, I'm leaving it to chance!' |
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| Jean Claude Rissett demonstrating his synthesised trumpet music which 20 listeners (out of how many, it doesn't say) could not distinguish from a real trumpet. Miles Davis did not feel threatened. |
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| Fascinating diagram of how computer music is generated, eh? |
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