Llorenç Barber: Cuaderno de Yokohama (2009)

The booklet contains the series of 17 graphic scores that Llorenç Barber created in Yokohama (Japan) in 2005. The series brings together the visual exercises and/or pastimes that the composer compiled in a small notebook as he worked on Pocket Naumaquia, the closing concert of the International Triennale of Contemporary Art (ITCA) in December 2005. For this publication Barber has used these graphic notations as inspiration to write 17 texts that, like a game, readers can link to any score they wish.

Llorenç Barber’s work is also reflected in the monograph on his artistic career in episode two of the AVANT series and a major selection of his graphic scores was displayed as part the exhibition Possibility of Action: the Life of the Score in 2008.

Publisher Ràdio Web MACBA, Barcelona, 2009
Quadern d’àudio series, Vol. 2
ISSN 2013-4681
26 pages
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Tōru Takemitsu: Confronting Silence: Selected Writings (1995)

“In these writings, available here in English for the first time, the distinguished Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu reflects on his contemporaries, including John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, and Merce Cunningham; on nature, which has profoundly influenced his composition; on film and painting; on relationships between East and West; on traditional Japanese music; and on his own compositions.”

Translated and edited by Yoshiko Kakudo and Glenn Glasow
With a Foreword by Seiji Ozawa
Publisher Scarecrow Press, 1995
Fallen Leaf Monographs on Contemporary Composers series
ISBN 1461664845, 9781461664840
156 pages
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Oliver Messiaen: Treatise on Rhythm, Color, and Ornithology, Vol. 1 (1994/1998)

A translation of the first volume of Messiaen’s 7-volume music theory treatise. Where possible, all musical examples have been reproduced in their entirety. This volume addresses several of Messiaen’s ideas on musical as well as non-musical rhythm. He discusses time, rhythm, greek metrics, hindu rhythms, and analyzes the 39 choruses of Le Printemps by Claude Le Jeune.

Originally published as Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d’ornithologie, Tome 1, Alphonse Leduc, Paris, 1994
With a Preface by Pierre Boulez
Translated by Melody Baggech
as her Dissertation thesis
Graduate Faculty of the School of Music, The University of Oklahoma, 1998
426 pages
via Charles Turner

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