Terry Riley
Ecstatic Aperture: Perspectives on the Life and Work of Terry Riley (Book)
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The culmination of many years of research, Ecstatic Aperture is the first comprehensive publication devoted to Californian composer Terry Riley (b. 1935). Spanning seven decades of creative activity, it brings together a collection of original essays alongside an extensive selection of documents, photographs, and musical scores, many of them previously unpublished and drawn from the composer's own archives. The book invites readers to move beyond familiar narratives and rediscover a truly singular and remarkable figure in the history of Western music since the 1960s.
Despite the scope and enduring resonance of Riley's multidimensional oeuvre, it has rarely been the subject of sustained historical or critical attention. Ecstatic Aperture conveys the complexity and continually renewed vitality of his work, while illuminating the networks of affinities and shifting cultural contexts in which it emerged and flourished - as well as those that his music continues, to this day, to nourish and inspire.
Edited by Vincent de Roguin, with contributions by Marcus Boon, Sarah Cahill, Sarah Davachi, Erik Davis, Anthony Elms, David Harrington, Mark Mahoney, Patrick Nickleson, Britton Powell, Vincent de Roguin, Mark Sinker and Daniel Spicer. English edition, softcover with dust jacket, 480 pages, 16.5 x 24 cm. Published by Shelter Press with Auryfa.
