AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                  236a,b

Jack Vees

with Martin Bresnick

New Haven, CT, 06520

December 16, 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a:                                                                                                            pp.1-18

introduction--CSMT [Center for Studies in Music Technology]--classes offered--early music lessons--jazz influences--Rutgers and Glassboro undergraduate education--Carlton Sprague Smith--Charles Ives--Spoonful--writing music--studies with Cecil Taylor--childhood memory--Joel Thome--Zappa’s Universe--minimal phase--jazz band at Glassboro--move to California--freelance musician--Cal Arts--fringe rock scene--Bang On a Can Festival--Vinko Globokar--Louis Andriessen  (De Staat and De Tijd)--Minneapolis.

Side b:                                                                                                           pp.18

more on instrumentation style of Andriessen--Symphony for Open Strings--Hoketus (hocketing)--Mondrian (Broadway Boogie Woogie)--Stravinsky--Mel Powell--Captain Beefheart.

Jack Vees

with Ingram Marshall

Hamden, CT; New Haven, CT

August 27, August 29 and September 1, 1998

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DAT 1

Side c                                                                                                                         pp. 1-19

Vernacular vs. classical music--activities as rock/jazz musician--musical activities in early life--musical experiences at Glassboro State College--Eleanor Hovda--book on bass harmonics--Jaco Pastorius--Guitar Inst. of Technology--Percussion Inst.--Bass Inst.--pieces from the seventies--bass improvisation solos--Wayne Shorter--beginnings of his interest in electronic music--Rutgers and Carleton Sprague Smith--influence on him of Cecil Taylor, Stockhausen, Albert Ayler, Ives--M104--W101.

Side d                                                                                                                                    pp. 19-38

Joel Thome--George Crumb--Frank Zappa--Art Jarvinen--Varesè--Satie--Cal Arts--playing dance classes--Ugly Janitors--working at an architect’s office--Eden Abez--John Henry--(P)LAYER(S)--early marriage--student days at Cal Arts--Vinko Globokar--(P)LAYER(S).

Side e                                                                                                                         pp. 38-57

(P)LAYER(S)--Consonant Music--Bicamerata--his use of text--influence of Alvin Lucier’s “I am sitting in a room”--John Cage--Instrumentallation #1 for oboe--Statues of Famous Paintings--A Refutation of Gravity--Illuminati--John Henry--compositional process--recording vs. live performance--Bang On A Can--A Refutation of Gravity--Louis Andriessen--Italo Calvino.

Side f                                                                                                                         pp. 57-75

A Refutation of Gravity--Andriessen--Lucky Mosko--Webern--Strummage for Ben Verdery--Illuminati, Apocrypha--Consonant Music--Mel Powell--Steve Reich--Philip Glass--Frank Zappa--Captain Beefheart--Morton Subotnick--experience with technology--instrumentallation pieces--Apocrypha.

Side g                                                                                                                         pp. 75-93

Apocrypha--work at Yale studio--Chez Vees--Piece for Composition--Colorized Chaplin--Eleanor Hovda--Surf Music Again--Tattooed Barbie--Stigmata Non Grata--Piano Trio--Rocket Baby--Party Talk.

Side h                                                                                                                                    pp. 93-110

SPNFL--Surf Music Again--views of structure in music and art--collaboration with architect at Yale--Strummage--West Coast sensibility--accessibility in music--The Moral Behavior of Rational Numbers.

Side i                                                                                                                          pp. 110-119

Uptown-downtown dichotomy--major musical influences--Joyce’s Ulysses--issues for young composers--possibilities for music on the Internet.