Cornelius Cardew

Do you like his piano music?

http://www.ubu.com/sound/cardew_piano.html

Yes, I do.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Do you like his piano music?

http://www.ubu.com/sound/cardew_piano.html

Yes, I do.

Originally posted by rbmorris
Same here! Downloading the files now. Thanks for posting this.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
I was surprised, I was expecting something more academic.

See if you can find his Treatise online ... It's challenging.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
I was surprised, I was expecting something more academic.

Ubu's on a roll, for my taste anyway. Give Jozef van Wissem a whirl too.

Originally posted by rbmorris
Just went to Ubu. Looks like they have a bunch of Jozef van Wissem recordings. Listening now. Will keep an eye open for Treatise.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
You obviously weren't attracted by my evocative thread title in this forum, currently sinking all lonesome down below.

I found a flash presentation of that thing, which is the oddest musical score I have seen. How it translates to music, I don't know, but it's interesting just to look at! Jim O' Rourke did a version of it.

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
As for how it translates to music, I found this some time ago. I found it gave me some insight as to how the score might be approached. Have you seen it?
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/picturesofmusic/pages/anim.html

Here's "A Young Persons Guide to Treatise" which contains some interesting information about Treatise as well as some MP3's.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Yes, that's the thing I found. Fascinating!

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Yes, it is. It builds upon the systems for indeterminacy in music created by Cage, Feldman, et al. Cage's 4'33" might be the most famous example. I find the Cage score to be particularly beautiful because it is so brilliantly simple.

Here's the link to "A Young Person's Guide..." that I omitted on my previous post.
http://www.spiralcage.com/improvMeeting/treatise.html