Cornelius Cardew

Cornelius Cardew (7 May 1936 – 13 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble.

Scores

• Treatise, Buffalo, NY: Gallery Upstairs Press, 1967, 193 pp.
• Treatise Handbook, London: Peters, 1970, 21 pp. Working and performance notes by Cardew around the graphic score Treatise. [1] [2]
• The Great Learning, 1971; repr., 1984.

Recordings

• on UbuWeb

Publications

• Stockhausen Serves Imperialism and Other Articles, London: Latimer New Dimensions, 1974, 126 pp. [3]

Literature

• John Tilbury, "Cornelius Cardew", Contact 26, Spring 1983, pp 4-12, PDF.
• Timothy D. Taylor, "Moving in Decency: The Music and Radical Politics of Cornelius Cardew", Music & Letters 79:4, Nov 1998, pp 555-576.
• Daniel Varela, "‘A Question of Language’: Frederic Rzewski in conversation about Cornelius Cardew", Journal of Experimental Music Studies, Mar 2004.
• John Tilbury, Cornelius Cardew: A Life Unfinished, Matching Tye (near Harlow, Essex): Copula Press, 2008, xxiv+1071 pp. Reviews: Frost, Thomson (Critical Improv). [4]
• Tony Harris, The Legacy of Cornelius Cardew, Ashgate, 2013, 228 pp.
• Beatrice Gibson, Between Script and Score: Notation and Movement in the Work of Cornelius Cardew, London: Goldsmiths University of London, 2013, 212 pp. PhD dissertation.

Links

• http://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=scratchcottage
• Cardew at SoundArtArchive.net
• Wikipedia