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Gordon Mumma
12+ albums
Avant-Gardeelectroniccontemporary classicalexperimentalnoise
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Gordon Mumma (born 30 March 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) studied piano and horn in Chicago and Detroit, and began his career as an active horn player in symphonic and chamber music. From 1953 to 1966 he lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he co-founded with Robert Ashley the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music and the now-historic ONCE Festivals of Contemporary Music. From 1966 to 1974 he was, with John Cage and David Tudor, one of the three composer-musicians with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, for which he composed four commissioned works. From 1966 he also performed with the Sonic Arts Union, whose members included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Alvin Lucier. He has also collaborated with diverse artists such as Tandy Beal, Anthony Braxton, William Brooks, Chris Brown, Marcel Duchamp, Fred Frith, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jasper Johns, Jann McCauley, Pauline Oliveros, Yvonne Rainer, Tom Robbins, Frederic Rzewski, Stephen Smoliar, Stan Van Der Beek, William Winant, and Christian Wolff. Mumma has made concert tours and recordings in North and South America, Japan and Europe. His writings on the contemporary performance arts and technology are published in several languages. His best-known engineering design was for an electronic music live-performance system at EXPO-70 (Osaka, Japan) in collaboration with David Tudor. Mumma has been on the faculties of the University of Illinois, the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt, Germany), and the Cursos Latinoamericano
top songs
1
The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945
2,8442The Dresden Interleaf 13 February 1945 (1965)
9763Epifont (1984)
9554Stressed Space Palindromes (1977-1982)
8305The Dresden Interleaf 13 Febuary 1945 (1965)
6996Pontpoint (1966-1980)
6277Retrospect (1959-1982)
6218Echo-D (1978)
4929Stressed Space Palindromes
40310Music From The Venezia Space Theatre (1964)
389albums
Studio Retrospect
An Anthology Of Noise And Electronic Music Vol,1
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (1)
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001
Gordon Mumma: Electronic Music Of Theater And Public Activity
Music of David Tudor And Gordon Mumma
Gordon Mumma: Music for Solo Piano (1960-2001)
Music for Merce, Vol. 2
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology 1921-2001 (Disc 1)
Live-Electronic Music
Electronic Music Of Theater And Public Activity
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Brain in the Wire (Disc B)