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DESCRIPTION OF PART 1Musical Selections: On intrusions -- is it reality or culture? The role of the artist -- deep in thought. Is it possible to avoid the environment around us? Being constantly interrupted? Larry Rivers, Bob Rauschenberg, Franz Kline, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Boulez, Black Mountain College. On boredom and Zen, Buckminster Fuller.Subject: Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983; Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-; Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951; Boulez, Pierre, 1925-; Kline, Franz, 1910-1962; Rauschenberg, Bob ; Rivers, Larry, 1925-; Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.); Zen Buddhism; Art, Modern; Avant-garde (Art); Silence in music; Music--Philosophy and aesthetics; Conversations; New musicPeople: Cage, John; Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987Recording Date: 7/9/1966First Broadcast Date: 10/18/1967Length: 39:25DESCRIPTION OF PART 2Musical Selections: Governments, modern music, freedom from being known. Writing for large or small ensembles. Boulez and Stockhausen's reactions. Writing for Christian Wolff and electric guitar. de Kooning. Lukas Foss. Cage comments on Feldman's soft sounds. Having stamina to make an action. On working alone. Working "at home". Being asocial and the telephone. Edgard Varese. The question of death.Subject: Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983; Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-; Boulez, Pierre, 1925-; De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997; Foss, Lukas, 1922-; Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965; Wolff, Christian, 1934-; Art, Modern; Avant-garde (Art); Music--Philosophy and aesthetics; Guitar; Death; Conversations; New musicPeople: Cage, John; Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987First Broadcast Date: 10/24/1967Length: 49:41DESCRIPTION OF PART 3Musical Selections: "There is so little talk these days." Talking in England. The ICA lectures. Kitaj. David Sylvester. English pompousness. Cardew. Compositions as "work-in-progress". Thinking about Mozart. Webern and other possibilities for new music. Differences between Boulez and Stockhausen piano pieces. Varese and process. Space, silence, notation, scales. Finding the vertical. Grandeur of Varese. Stockhausen's refusal. Looking into the future. Buckminster Fuller's ideas on ending war.Subject: Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983; Cardew, Conelius ; Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965; Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-; Boulez, Pierre, 1925-; Webern, Anton, 1883-1945; Art, Modern; Avant-garde (Art); Music--Philosophy and aesthetics; ConversationsPeople: Cage, John; Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987Recording Date: 12/28/1967First Broadcast Date: 10/25/1967Length: 1:06:08DESCRIPTION OF PART 4Musical Selections: Design in a disposable world. How our sense of time has changed. "How do we spend our time?" Conversation as enjoyment. Impermanence and music. "Do you prefer the composition, or hearing the music?" Feldman working on "In Search of an Orchestration". Composers silent on Vietnam. Painters are not. Protests in Europe. Fuller's views and World Resources Inventory. Global Village.Subject: Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983; Art, Modern; Avant-garde (Art); Music--Philosophy and aesthetics; Vietnam war; Conversations; New musicPeople: Cage, John; Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987Recording Date: 1/16/1967First Broadcast Date: 10/25/1967Length: 43:48DESCRIPTION OF PART 5Musical Selections: Varese or Webern? On Boulez. On an upcoming concert in Cincinnati. Problems, stories of performances. "Why do you continue to compose?" Creating new notation. Students making compositions. The way things are done nowadays. Things are "less narrow now". Children, and the Middle Ages. "If we apply ourselves to the social situation... as composition rather than criticism, we'll get somewhere!"Subject: Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983; Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965; Boulez, Pierre, 1925-; Webern, Anton, 1883-1945; Art, Modern; Avant-garde (Art); Music--Philosophy and aesthetics; Conversations; New musicPeople: Cage, John; Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987Recording Date: 1/16/1967First Broadcast Date: 10/25/1967Length: 54:38
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