Tokyo 1972

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Release Date: 2014-07-01

Label: Splitrec

1 Phillip L Ryan, in Barry Lowe, ‘Interview with Teletopa’, in Music Now vol 2, no 1 (April 1972), p 21. 2 Ibid. 3 David Ahern, ‘Teletopa’, in Music Now vol 2, no 1 (April 1972), p 20. 4 Ryan, letter to Geoffrey Barnard, 25 October 2011.
5 Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and beyond (London: Studio Vista, 1974), p 109.
6 John Tilbury, Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981): a life unfinished (Matching Tye, UK: Copula, 2008), p 289, original emphasis.
7 Frank Harris, ‘“Mods” Took a Thrashing’, in The Daily Mirror, Wednesday, 17 February 1971, p 24.
8 Roger Frampton, ‘Teletopa, AZ Music, Free Kata and Free Improvised Music in Australia: an Autobiographical Perspective’, in Sounds Australian: Journal of Australian Music no 32 (Summer 1991-92), p 22.
9 See David Bromfield, Identities: A Critical Study of the Work of Mike Parr 1970-1990 (Nedlands WA: University of Western Australia Press, 1991), pp 8-9.
10 The term ‘post-object art’ is used here to encompass a diverse range of artistic activity, including conceptual art, process art, installations, mixed-media performance, indeterminate composition, free improvisation, concrete and sound poetry, etc.
11 Cornelius Cardew, ‘Towards an Ethic of Improvisation’, in Treatise Handbook (London, Frankfurt and New York: Edition Peters, 1971), p xvii, added emphasis.
12 David Ahern, ‘Notes on Expansion’, in Other Voices vol1, no 2 (August/September 1970), p 35.
13 The Australian improviser Jim Denley claims that, at the time, it was the loudest music he had experienced: see Jim Denley, ‘Networks, playfulness and collectivity: Improv in Australia, 1972-2007’, in Gail Priest (ed), Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009), p 137.
14 Frampton, op cit, p 22.
15 Ernest Gallagher, ‘The State of the Art: Electronic Music Seminar’, in Music Maker (October 1971), p 28. 16 Ahern had studied with Stockhausen in 1968 at his International New Music Courses in Darmstadt (the Musik für ein Haus project) and Cologne New Music courses. 17 Frampton, op cit, p 23.

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