{"product_id":"james-tenney-writings-and-interviews-on-experimental-music-9798765121320","title":"James Tenney: Writings and Interviews on Experimental Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis volume collects, for the first time, essential interviews and aesthetic writings from throughout James Tenney's five-decade artistic career.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe eminent American-Canadian composer James Tenney (1934-2006) made groundbreaking contributions to sampling culture, digital sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, minimalism, spectral music, music in non-standard tuning systems, contemporary theories of form and harmony, and the consolidation of an American experimental-music tradition. This book documents both his own work and his involvements with influential figures in mid-century American music, film, art, and technology. The writings are accompanied by photographs, artworks, compositional sketches, archival documents, and previously unpublished scores. Appendices supply, for the first time, exhaustive lists of Tenney's compositions and published writings, as well as performance chronologies that capture his influential contributions to the experimental arts in New York City and elsewhere in the 1960s and 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Wannamaker \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Dean in the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Music of James Tenney, Vols. 1 \u0026amp; 2\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and co-editor of James Tenney's\u003ci\u003e From Scratch: Writings in Music Theory \u003c\/i\u003e(2015). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLauren Pratt\u003c\/b\u003e is the executor of the estate of James Tenney, Canada. She is co-editor of James Tenney's \u003ci\u003eFrom Scratch: Writings in Music Theory \u003c\/i\u003e(2015). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTashi Wada\u003c\/b\u003e is a composer and independent scholar based in Los Angeles, USA. Wada studied composition with James Tenney at the California Institute of the Arts and has helped oversee Tenney's archive for the past decade.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51500457656594,"sku":"9798765121320","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb4d5db0-c95f-4db9-8cf0-47633c76d67f.jpg?v=1753192169","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/james-tenney-writings-and-interviews-on-experimental-music-9798765121320","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}