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David Tudor is remembered today in two guises as an extraordinary pianist of post war avant garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live electronic music His early realization of indeterminate graphic scores and hislater performances using homemade modular instruments both inspired a whole generation of musicians But his reticence his unorthodox approaches and the diversity of his creative output which began with the organ and ended with visual art have kept Tudor a puzzle. Reminded by the Instruments epubs Illustrated with than 300 images of diagrams schematics and photographs of Tudor s instruments Reminded by the Instruments sets out to solve the puzzle of David Tudor by applying Tudor s own methods for approaching the materials of others to the vast archive of materials that he himself leftbehind You Nakai deftly patches together instruments electronic circuits sketches diagrams recordings letters receipts customs declaration forms and testimonies like modular pieces of a giant puzzle to reveal the long hidden nature of Tudor s creative process Rejecting the establishednarrative of Tudor as a performer turned composer this book presents a lively portrait of an artist whose activity always merged both of these roles In reading Tudor s electronic devices as musicological texts and examining his idiosyncratic use of electronic circuits Nakai underminesdiscourses on sound and illuminates our understanding of the instruments behind the sounds in post war experimental music Reminded by the Instruments David Tudor s MusicI really think this is one of those rare entries in the field It s solidly researched LOTS of detail and accuracy Obviously having access to documents and archival materials such as instruments themselves is significant not all researchers get that but it s the depth of immersion in Tudor s work and how these instruments relate this is strong historical ground. Book Reminded by the instruments used I had only a few laughs that the Moog and Buchla instruments were too limited which is ridiculous we still have thousands of possible options with those systems and others or that Tudor s instruments were somehow superior because they had non stable power supplies generating less controlled outcomes Well if lack of control is a benefit it seems a lot of poor designers would be good at that But other than these small philosophical disagreements I wish there were books like this one Reminded by the Instruments David Tudor s Music 
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