David Tudor
David Tudor (1926 to 1996) was a legend of American experimental music. For years after the Second World War he was the only pianist to devote himself systematically to the most radical new music, giving the first performances of John Cage's works, including 4'33", and of Boulez, Stockhausen and Feldman, and becoming a touchstone for the whole avant-garde with a technique and a fearlessness no one could match. From the 1960s he set the piano aside and turned to live electronics, building his own circuits and treating them as unpredictable instruments to be played.
Anima Pepsi + The Days Pass Quickly (2LP Bundle)
The two new Blume LPs together: David Tudor's Anima Pepsi, composed for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, and Lea Bertucci's The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, written for Norbert Rodenkirchen's flutes.
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Anima Pepsi
Two pieces David Tudor composed in 1970 for the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, built by E.A.T.: Pepsibird, from tapes of human and animal brain waves, and Anima Pepsi, from insect and animal field recordings.
New Directions In Music 2
Morton Feldman’s New Directions in Music 2 is one of the true cornerstones of modern classical music. Originally released in 1959, the album captures Feldman at the very beginning of his radical journey into sound, space and silence, developing the sparse, floating language that would go on to influence generations of experimental composers and ambient musicians alike. With cover artwork by abstract painter Philip Guston and clear parallels to the chance-based ideas of John Cage, the record perf…
For Piano I / For Pianist / Burdocks (LP)
1972 album on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series with two avant-garde solo piano pieces from the 1950's plus the classic partly indeterminated instrumental composition from 1971 performed by an all-star group including David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, Frederic Rzewski, David Behrman and the composer himself. With insert.
Variations IV (LP)
First volume of excerpts from the ground-breaking and mind-blowing August 1965 sound collage performance (predating Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask for about 15 years), released by Everest in 1966 (this is a 1970 re-press with different labels). Essential.
Variations IV Volume II (LP)
Second volume of excerpts from the ground-breaking and mind-blowing August 1965 sound collage performance (predating Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask for about 15 years), released by Everest in 1969 (this is a 1970 re-press with different labels). Essential.
Microphone (LP)
The astonishing and influential first solo electronic album by the pianist/composer and one of the rarest on Cramps' superlative "Nova musicha" experimental music series, released in 1978. Some of the best and most extreme electronic music ever.
Music For Merce Cunningham / Dialects / Untitled (LP)
Rare 1998 red vinyl LP on Rotating Arts Press in a limited edition of 200 numbered copies with an undated recording of a satellite broadcast of the electronic environment for a live event by Merce Cunningham, plus two 1988 live radio recording.
Sounday 15-6-78 (book)
Rare fully illustrated hommage to the composer published as the program for the 1978 première and recording of Sounday by KRO Radio in Holland, with texts by Pierre Boulez, Merce Cunningham, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, etc..
The Early Years (LP)
1968 re-issue on Odyssey's "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series produced by David Behrman of the 1959 LP New Directions In Music 2 with historical recordings of the composers' early pieces from the 1950's performed by David Tudor and the composer himseld among others.
Times Five / Octet I / December 1952 / Novara (LP)
Great collection of experimental works spannong from 1952 to 1963, including an electronic piece, two open form compositions for ensemble (one with tape) conducted by the composer himself and one for piano performed by Davis Tudor, released on CRI's "Contemporary Music" series in 1974.
A Second Wind For Organ (LP)
Great 1967 album on Odyssey's "Music Of Our Time" avant-garde music series produced by David Behrman with three experimental works for organ performed by David Tudor, including Mumma's amazing ear-splitting Mesa.
Anagram For Strings / Geography & Music (LP)
Rare 2005 release on Slowscan in an edition of 150 numbered copies (with three cover variations of 50 each) on clear vinyl. It couples a 1961 piece with a 1979 piece by the Japanese Fluxus composer, with an all-star performing group including Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, John Cage and Malcom Goldstein!
Anagram For Strings / Geography & Music (LP)
Rare 2005 release on Slowscan in an edition of 150 numbered copies (with three cover variations of 50 each) on clear vinyl. It couples a 1961 piece with a 1979 piece by the Japanese Fluxus composer, with an all-star performing group including Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, John Cage and Malcom Goldstein!
Appearance/Music for Solo Performer
A 1967 concert at Hope College, Michigan, found in a Japanese archive: Cage, Tudor and Ichiyanagi play Ichiyanagi's "Appearance" and an early realization of Alvin Lucier's "Music for Solo Performer", the first piece made with brainwaves.
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Mesa / Pontpoint / Fwyyn
Original 1986 edition on Lovely of music for bandoneaon and cybersonic console by Mumma featuring David Tudor and Pauline Oliveros. Only the best of the best!
Rainforest IV (LP)
Original 1981 mint copies of the first edition of Tudor's electronic environment masterpiece from 1973 published by the legendary Edition Block.
Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic
Perfect copy of Cage & Tudor's landmark album for Folkways from 1959 released as 2xLP box set with booklet.
Microphone
At long last, after decades out of print, the Milan based imprint, Dialogo, dives into the legendary catalog of Cramps, bringing forth the first ever vinyl reissue of David Tudor’s legendary LP, "Microphone", part of an ongoing initiative dedicated to bring the imprint’s seminal output back into the light. Still mind-blowing nearly half a century after it was first released, now complete with a new English translation of the album’s original liner notes, this is just about as exciting as reissue…
Reminded by the Instruments. David Tudor's Music (Book)
** 768 Pages | Over 300 illustrations ** 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 his later performances using homemade modular instruments both inspired a whole generation of musicians. But his reticence, his unorthodox approaches, and the diversity …