A Brief History of New Music: By Hans Ulrich Obrist (Documents)

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Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with the foremost musicians and composers of the mid- to late 20th-century from Yoko Ono to Brian Eno Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrists A Brief History of Curating this publication gathers the influential curators interviews with some of the foremost musicians and composers of the 1950s1990s. It brings together leading avant-garde composers of the early postwar period such as Elliot Carter Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen; pioneers of electroacoustic music such as Franois Bayle Pauline Oliveros Iannis Xenakis and Peter Zinovieff; minimalist and Fluxus-inspired artist-musicians such as Tony Conrad Henry Flynt Phil Niblock Yoko Ono Steve Reich and Terry Riley; and figures that have moved between classical/experimental realms and more pop terrain such as Brian Eno Kraftwerk Howie B. Arto Lindsay and Caetano Veloso. Obrists interviews map the evolution of the new music in Europe and America across all of its genres from musique concrte to the recent hybridizations between pop and avant-garde as techniques from both realms cross-pollinate. A Brief History of New Music is an ideal introduction to the experimental and new classical music of the past half-century.