Reflections

PREFACES
Pauline Oliveros: Poet of Electronic Music
James Tenney: The Eloquent Voice of Nature

INTERVIEWS WITH DOUGLAS SIMON
". . . to let alpha be itself". Music for Solo Performer
". . . and listen to the ocean again". Chambers
Taking Slow Audio Photographs of the Space. Vespers
"Every room has its own melody". "I am sitting in a room"
Imitating One Set of Sounds with Another. (Hartford) Memory Space
A Metaphor for One's Life. Quasimodo the Great Lover
Composite Identities. The Duke of York
Imaginary Imagery. Gentle Fire
Seeing Sound. The Queen of the South, Tyndall Orchestrations
Making Audible That Which Is Inaudible. Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
"Do you know how robins turn their heads to listen?" Outlines of Persons and Things, Bird and Person Dyning
The Poetry of Science. Music on a Long Thin Wire
Sound Shadows. Directions of Sounds from the Bridge

INTERVIEWS WITH DANIEL WOLF
"The gods appear out of nowhere". Crossings, Nothing is Real
"The sound melts into the environment". Fragments for Strings, Navigations for Strings
"The simple is the difficult". Panorama, Six Geometries

CONVERSATIONS
"Creating a new kind of a music for me" (Barney Childs)
". . . when you stutter, you scan the language" (Walter Zimmermann)
"With and without a purpose" (Robert Ashley)
"Discovery is part of the experience" (William Duckworth)
"I'm cutting things down to their simplest form" (James Tenney)
"The form of the piece is a search" (Arne Deforce)
"You never know what's going to happen" (James Saunders)

ABOUT OWN WORK
Music for Solo Performer 1965
The Making of North American Time Capsule
Program Proposal for Pepsi-Cola Pavilion
The Propagation of Sound in Space
The Tools of My Trade
Clocker
Sferics
Seesaw
Wall with Vertical Slit
Sound on Paper
Pasta for Tired Dancers
Thoughts on Installations
Skin, Meat, Bone
String Quartets
Origins of a Form
My Affairs with Feedback
Fruits and Vegetables

ABOUT OTHERS
A Letter to Frederic Rzewski
An Open Letter to the Artistic Director of the Ojai Music Festival
I Remember Morty
Collaborations with John Cage
Soba
The Sonic Arts Union
Avant-garde and Experiment
The Future of Our Music
Preface to Robert Ashley's book Outside of Time
Notes on Verbal Notation
The Local is the Universal
In Memoriam David Tudor, Robert Ashley, Reinhard Oehlschlägel, Pauline Oliveros

SCORES
Music for Solo Performer
Shelter
Chambers
Vespers
The Only Talking Machine of Its Kind in the World
"I am sitting in a room"
(Hartford) Memory Space
Hymn
Quasimodo the Great Lover
The Duke of York
Gentle Fire
The Queen of the South
Tyndall Orchestrations
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Outlines of Persons and Things
Bird and Person Dyning
Music on a Long Thin Wire
Directions of Sounds from the Bridge
Ghosts
Words on Windy Corners
Lullaby
Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums
Risonanza
Precious Metals
Attaché Case
Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra
Carbon Copies
Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillators and One or More Reflective Surfaces
Indian Summer
Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases
Music for Piano with Half-closed Lid
Empty Vessels

PROGRAM AND LINER NOTES
LIST OF WORKS
TEXT CREDITS
PHOTO CREDITS
INDEX OF NAMES