Soundings

Peter Garland and John Bischoff  

 

SOUNDINGS 01 1972  Contents: May rain / Lou Harrison -- A song / Peter Garland -- Why don't you write a short piece? George Washington slept here too / Pauline Oliveros -- Untitled. Untitled / Wolfgang Stoerchle -- Pauline spring piece. Sun pieces. Vittorio / Harold Budd -- Loverise - Daniel Lentz -- World band / Richard Teitelbaum -- World band music: Choreogram / James Tenney. From the Tamara settings / Steven Mosko. Compositions on my mind 1970 / Robert Moran. Fancy free of it's there / Robert Ashley. Green is the color of thy yellow hair / Charlie Buel. Silent night mix. Silent mix night / Ivan Tcherepnin. Olives / John Bischoff. Time, text, Woyzeck / Jon Phetteplace. Show horses in the concert ring / Harry Partch. Review of Schooltime compositions by Cardew / Dick Higgins.    

 

SOUNDINGS 02 1972  Content unknown    

 

SOUNDINGS 03/04 1972  Contents: Folio of scores for the composers' forum / James Fulkerson -- Toronto (seventh). Spheres / Guy Klucevsek -- Untitled / Wolfgang Stoerchle -- Distant light. Song of the lifting up of the head / Michael Byron -- Music lib / Daniel Lentz -- Clang / James Tenney -- Coming together, part I / Frederic Rzewski -- Mrdangam / Dary John Mizelle -- Ink marks for performance. In intimacy -- pulsation. Crash actions. Rounds. OM entrance. "Peace be still" / Philip Corner. -- France 1917-Spain 1937. Peace piece one. Peace piece two. Peace piece three / Lou Harrison -- Very much it sleeps / David Mahler.    

 

SOUNDINGS 05 1972  Content unknown    

 

SOUNDINGS 06 1973  Contents: Now oh friends ; Chamomile / Eugene Bowen -- There's hope ; In case of beer call Jim Tenney ; Fire, water, earth, and aire / Khaleef Orñerían -- Wire Sound / Peter van Riper -- Rain piece / Guy Klucevsek -- Whether or not to die in love / David Simon -- Scarhead ; Monnaie / Tom Nixon -- The three strange angels / Peter Garland -- Thornapple odes ; Saguaro / Thomas Miller -- Charlemagne Palestine, proselyte of the new harmony / Ingram Marshall -- Notes for an essay ; Interview / Charlemagne Palestine -- Arcanum part I / Peter Garland -- Arcanum, part II / Michael Byron -- A new philosophy of music ; Concerning my music ; Solitude for string quartet / Dane Rudhyar -- Introduction (to pieces by Ki Wasitodipuro) / Alan Feinstein -- Translations of the texts of the compositions by Ki Wasitodipuro / Nancy Pemberton-Florida -- Lagu Sopir Betjak ; Lanjaran Gugur-gunung ; Ketawang Wedyasmara / Ki Wasitodipuro -- Study #24 for player piano (Canon - 14/15/16) / Conlon Nancarrow -- Quintext / James Tenney.aleato    

 

Soundings 07/08 1973  Contents: The universal flute / H. Cowell -- Sentinel night. Pines / T. Miller -- Longbow angels / E. Bowen -- Two for tuna. You were warned. Ce acati / T. Nixon -- Dragon rite / M. Byron -- Three songs of mad coyote / P. Garland -- Still life: Michael Kaempf. Whitman sampler. Wild mountain thyme. Children in the grasses without knowing colors / D. Mahler -- Duet for ratchets / C. Amirkhanian -- Orfscape / L. Stein -- Slow motion sound / S. Reich -- Last year's life / D. Schmidt -- Eight pieces / J. Dinwiddie -- The music of personality / D. Rudhyar -- Music of the spheres / J. Beyer -- Comment / P. Garland -- Of place, as altered / B. Childs -- String quartet describing the motion of large real bodies / R. Ashley -- Coming together. Figure ground / B. Becker -- Metathesis. Depth of field / G. Klucevsek -- Evensong / C. Orena -- Study #21 for player piano / C. Nancarrow -- You can't see the forest (music). King speech song / D. Lentz.; Rice bowl thunder sock / I. Marshall -- An introduction to George Antheil / C. Amirkhanian -- Sonata sauvage / G. Antheil -- Sacco, Vanzetti. Chinaman, laundryman / R. Crawford -- Madrigals of the rose angel. Lirio. The dragonfly cymbal. Butterfly Sunday / H. Budd.    

 

SOUNDINGS 09 1975  Contents: 4 tributes to Harry Partch / Tom Nixon, Laurence Weisberg, Peter Garland, Lou Harrison -- Fortunate light / Alice Farley -- The ride cymbal and the band that caused the fire in the sycamore trees / Gavin Bryars -- Gavin Bryars 1971, Michael Nyman 1975 / Michael Nyman -- Jesus' blood never failed me yet / Gavin Bryars -- The sinking of the Titanic / Gavin Bryars -- Study # 25 for player piano / C. Nancarrow.    

 

SOUNDINGS 10 1976  Final issue of "Soundings", Summer 1976, devoted to Philip Corner piece consisting of music notation as well as well as excerpts from the writings of Edgar Varese, Paul Bowles, Joan LaBarbara, Charles Seeger, Lou Harrison, Pablo Neruda, Conlon Nancarrow, Alvin Curran and many others.    

 

SOUNDINGS 11 1982. Includes: For Cornelius, by Alvin Curran; Furniture Music, by Romulus Franceschini; Oscillation No. 2, by Guy Klucevsek; Rite of Transcendence, by Dane Rudhyar; Ensembles, Part I, by Michael Byron. Articles by Paul Rosenfield, and Jeff Smith.    

 

SOUNDINGS 12 1982.  Includes: For Cornelius, by Alvin Curran; Furniture Music, by Romulus Franceschini; Oscillation No. 2, by Guy Klucevsek; Rite of Transcendence, by Dane Rudhyar; Ensembles, Part I, by Michael Byron. Articles by Paul Rosenfield, and Jeff Smith.    

 

SOUNDINGS 13 1984 The Music of James Tenney  Cover design by Alison Knowles. In addition to works by Tenney, there are contributions by Garland, Malcolm Goldstein, Carolee Schneeman, and Philip Corner. SIGNED by Tenney on the title page.    

 

SOUNDINGS 14/15 1990  Phrases of the Hermit Thrush, by Daniel Goode; Madrigal: One Rock on Another, by John Luther Adams; The City the Wind Swept Away, by Jim Fox; The Consent of Sound and Meaning, by Eric Richards; White Man Sleeps, by Kevin Volans; Time Slice, by Jack Briece. Articles by Peter Garland, Alejo Carpentier, and Eugenia Balcells.    

 

SOUNDINGS 16 1990  Includes: Road Runner, by John Zorn; Cello Chi, by Sarah Hopkins; Go Guitars, by Lois V Vierk; 4BC, by Mary Jane Leach; Doubles III, by Mamoru Fujieda; Metropolis San Francisco, by Charles Amirkhanian.