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