Hi all,
Re:
> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:47:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: { brad brace } <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: FLUXLIST: from scratch (fwd)
>
> From 1969 and on the "Scratch Orchestra" was an astonishingly well
> functioning social music phenomenon
<big enormous snip>
This article by Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen ("Pluralism in Progress: England -
the place for radical improvised music," _The Improvisor_
<http://www.the-improvisor.com/plural.html>) is substantially correct and
worth a look if you need an introduction and overview of the scene here.
However, he doesn't mention AMM, the legendary improv. ensemble (although he
does mention their label, Matchless), whose members Keith Rowe and Eddie
Pr�vost taught Cornelius Cardew about improvisation - essentially propelling
him to the philosophy he used in founding the Scratch Orchestra (with
Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton).
Cardew was not only a teacher at Morley College, he was a fellow of the
Royal Academy of Music in London. Given the conservatism of English music
at the time, Cardew's work with the Scratch emerges as an astonishingly
radical act. And, on a minor point, the membership of the Scratch
Orchestra, while no more than about 30-40 normally, grew to as much as 100
on big occasions.
Also, my thanks and gratitude to William Rieder for his kind words about my
thesis (which is also available in the US at Anomalous Recordings
<www.anomalousrecords.com>). I've been bugged about writing a short
foreword updating elements of this 1983 work and shall do so sometime this
month. It will be included in future editions of the thesis and will be
made available on the Experimental Music Catalogue website. Although the
EMC is not-for-profit, I wouldn't like to waste bandwidth on writing to the
list as a whole, so if anyone would like updates of this project and other
EMC stuff, they can contact me at the address below.
Cheers,
Virginia
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Virginia Anderson
Leicester, UK
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Experimental Music Catalogue: <http://www.experimentalmusic.co.uk>
...experimental music since 1969....
