Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley
A selection of Tom Johnson's columns in the Village Voice, 1972–77, with links to pieces.
A selection of readings from Alvin Lucier, Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music (Wesleyan: Wesleyan University Press, 2012), 70–93, 144–49, 158–76.
Trailer for No Ideas But in Things: documentary on Alvin Lucier.
David Gutkin, ‘“Meanwhile, Let’s Go Back in Time”: Allegory, Actuality, and History in Robert Ashley’s Television Opera Trilogy’, The Opera Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1 (2014).
Pauline Oliveros, "Sound Observations," Source: Music of the Avant Garde (1967) and Software for People: Writings 1963–1980 (Smith pub., 1982).
Pauline Oliveros, Selections from Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse), 29–45.
Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting in a Room, (1969).
Alvin Lucier, TaPir Lab, Music on a Long Thin Wire
Robert Ashley, Perfect Lives (7 roughly half-hour episodes; watch at least two!)
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, remastered Deep Listening
Alvin Lucier, Chambers: Scores 1980
Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Mediations 1974
Philip Auslander, "Fluxus Art-Amusement: The Music of the Future?[revised and expanded version]," Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality, ed. James Harding. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Kenneth Goldsmith, "Living in Television Time: an interview with Robert Ashley," New York Times, April 14-20, 1999.
Tyrus Miller, "The-Approach-of-the-End-of-the-World-Feeling: Allegory and Eschatology in the Operas of Robert Ashley," Ars Aeterna -Unfolding the Baroque: Cultures and Concepts 2/1 (2010): 40-51.
Alvin Lucier, “Bird and Person Dyning" performed by Yvonne Harder, Sophiensaele Berlin 2009