[silence] Terry Riley's "In C"

[Katherine Setar]

Dear Glen,

I'm posting online in the hope that my meanderings might illicit 
comments from other readers on the list.

With regard to Riley's "In C":  According to Pauline Oliveros's book, 
SOFTWARE FOR PEOPLE (Baltimore, MD:  Smith Publications, 1984), p. 197, 
the premiere of Terry Riley's "In C" was in 1965 at the San Francisco 
Tape Music Center.  Oliveros (in SOFTWARE) also makes a brief allusion 
to "In C" in a dream journal, dated Feb. 3, 1972, but it is not a 
"factual account."  Instead, Oliveros relates the work to "a flock of 
migrating birds in flight"  (page 72).

Pauline Oliveros was one of the founders (and a director) of the SFTMC. 
You might try contacting Pauline Oliveros herself at her website:

http://www.deeplistening.org/site/

Incidentally, I believe Oliveros and Riley are friends, so this might 
lead to other sources of information.  For example, I would not be 
surprised if other members of the SFTMC (Don Buchla, Morton Subotnick, 
Ramon Sendar) might not have other avenues for you to research.

You might also contact Professor David Bernstein at Mills College.  He 
is publishing a book titled:

The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the 
Avant-Garde (University of California Press and Experimental Media and 
Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
forthcoming July 2008).

Also, Mills College (I believe) has archival materials about the SFTMC. 
  This is owing to the fact that Oliveros taught at Mills for many years.

Also, I was wondering if you already had found the LP recording from 
Columbia Records Stereo MS 7178 of "In C."   The jacket notes, written 
by Paul Williams, describes the experience of listening to the piece.

Good luck on your research,

Katherine Setar
> From: Glen Lester <glester_@hotmail.co.uk>
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> Hello,
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> Im currently doing a University study in the UK based on the New Music's of the early 50's - late 60's, featuring Cage, Stockhausen, Riley, Young etc. Some of you may remember me from before when i posted my online survey of this study, and i'm very thankful to all those that helped me!  
> 
> I'm posting another message this time, as i am finding it very difficult to come across Audience reactions to compositions at the time they first came out from this period.
> 
> Obviously, there is much information on Cage's 4"33 piece and from when he first performed it in 1952 at Woodstock, New York, but i'm trying to look for Audience reactions to Stockhausen's - Gesang der J?nglinge, and Terry Riley's - In C in particular, but generally any composition from this time that has information on Audience reactions will do.
> 
> Please email me any websites, journals, or books that you know of that could have this information.
> 
> 
> I'll be very greatful for any replies!
> 
> Thank you! 
> 
> Glen