photo album for the 1960’s & 70’s american avant-garde

Everyone has seemed to love the photo albums I posted on La Monte Young and Joan La Barbara, so I thought I’d round it out, and broaden my subject to the breadth of avant-garde music from the 1960’s and 70’s. This is one of my favorite periods of music. These are images that I’ve collected while wanderings around the internet. I’ve done my best to cover as broad a range as seemed reasonable (roughly 60 images), but I haven’t managed to be as inclusive as I might have liked. Let’s chock it up to taste for now, as those represented are among my favorites of the generation.  I hope you enjoy, and that they give you a window into an incredibly exciting period of thought, experiment, and sound.

Terry Riley 1970’s

Terry Riley 1970’s

Terry Riley 1960’s

Terry Riley W/ Kronos Quartet

 

Terry Riley & Morton Feldman

Terry Riley 1970’s

Terry Riley 1970’s

The Sonic Arts Union (Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Robert Ashley and David Behrman)

The Sonic Arts Union (Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Robert Ashley and David Behrman)

San Fransisco Tape Music Center

San Fransisco Tape Music Center (Ramon Sender, Mike Callahan, Morton Subotnick, and Pauline Oliveros)

San Fransisco Tape Music Center (Tony Martin, Bill Maginnis, Ramon Sender, Morton Subotnick & Pauline Oliveros)

Alvin Lucier

Alvin Lucier & Friends

Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros – Performance of Valentine

Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

Phill Niblock

Steve Reich – Performance of Pendulum Music

Steve Reich & William Wiley

Steve Reich

Steve Reich

Steve Reich

Steve Reich – Performance of Four Organs

Yoshi Wada

Yoshi Wada

Yoshi Wada

Yoshi Wada

Yoshi Wada

Henry Flynt

Henry Flynt

Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad

Tony Conrad

Angus MacLise

Angus MacLise

Angus MacLise

Charlemagne Palestine

Charlemagne Palestine

Charlemagne Palestine

Charlemagne Palestine

Charlemagne Palestine

Charlemagne Palestine

Ellen Fullman & Arnold Dreyblatt – Performing on her Long String Instrument

Ellen Fullman – Performing on her Long String Instrument

Arnold Dreyblatt

Philip Glass Ensemble

Philip Glass

Philip Glass Ensemble

Philip Glass & Dickie Landry

John Cage & Gordon Mumma

Gordon Mumma

Gordon Mumma& Robert Ashley

Gordon Mumma

David Borden, Gordon Mumma, Robert Moog, and David Tudor

Robert Ashley & Terry Riley