Probing Gordon Mumma's Studio Heuristic through a Digital Recreation of Mesa (1966).
Gordon Mumma (b. 1935) composed and performed music with live electronics alone or in collaboration with such central figures as John Cage, David Tudor, or Robert Ashley. This activity, closely linked to the American experimentalist tradition, grew out of his first youthful electronic essays on the...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Music Review Vol. 39; no. 6; pp. 733 - 757 |
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Dec2020
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