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Musicworks 80 - Looking Back (CD+magazine)

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One of the best magazines of experimental music / sound art, founded by John Oswald and published since 1978. Includes feaurures, essays, interviews, reviews, etc., and comes with a CD with (often exclusive) music/sound in relation to the contents of the magazine. In this issue: Scratch Orchestra, sound poetry and sound art, etc.

condition (disc/magazine): NM / EX

10"x8", 64- to 72-page (depending on the issue) stapled magazine.

Issue 80 of Musicworks, from summer 2001, looks back at the Scratch Orchestra and at sound poetry and sound art. The CD holds a complete performance of The Great Learning, Paragraph 4 (1970) by Cornelius Cardew, almost forty minutes long, from the cycle Cardew wrote for the Scratch Orchestra on texts by Confucius.

Before it come Ruth Crawford Seeger's brief song When, Not If (1933), Jennifer Bird's Continuus Line (2000), With Their Shadows Long (1997) by Linda Catlin Smith, and Précis d'imprécision: scènes de rue by Carol Dallaire and Jun Zhang.

Details
Cat. number: MW 80
Year: 2001

Release notes

Included with issue 80 of Musicworks magazine [Summer 2001].

Tracklist
1When, Not If (1933)1:17
2Continuus Line (2000)9:12
3With Their Shadows Long (1997)12:48
4Précis D'Imprécision: Scénes De Rue (1999)11:38
5The Great Learning, Paragraph 4 (1970)38:24

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