Jon Gibson

with Ingram Marshall

New York City, N.Y.

March 22, 2000

TABLE OF CONTENTS

[DAT One}

Side a:                                                                                                            pp. 1-18

Earliest musical memories: listening to big band, playing percussion and alto saxophone--developing an interest in jazz in high school--listening to jazz in clubs and on recordings--work as a visual artist--taking an architechture program at San Fransisco State, switching to music--improvisation--meeting people at UC-Davis--founding New Music Ensemble--Source magazine--studying at San Francisco State--meeting people: Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Stuart Dempster, etc.--studying with Wayne Peterson, Henry Onderdonk, John Handy--Steve Reich--John Chowning--Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead--Terry Riley--Chet Baker--first performance of In C--San Fransisco Tape Music Center--falling out between Steve Reich and Terry Riley--studying South Indian music--Terry Jennings--going to Mexico--touring with a circus--working for LaMonte Young--

Side b:                                                                                                           pp. 18-40

Meeting Philip Glass--Gradus--How, Now--David Behrman--composing--Thirties--Visitations--The Kitchen--meeting Ingram Marshall--interest in visual art--album: Two Solo Pieces--change ringing--music versus visual in his work--Charlemagne Palestine--playing with Steve Reich in Drumming--Jim Tenney--Four Organs--touring Europe with La Monte Young--Pandit Pran Nath--performing with Steve Reich and Philip Glass--competition between Reich and Glass.

Side c:                                                                                                                        pp. 40-46

Playing keyboard and percussion--touring with La Monte Young--getting married and working with his wife--Visitations--Single-Stroke Roll--environmental tapes--non-Western music--Visitations--recording pre-existing sounds--Thirties.

[DAT Two}

Side d:                                                                                                           pp. 46-75

Thirties--performing Drumming with Steve Reich--Indeterminacy II--South Indian Katakali--Laura Dean dancers--Isis Festival--more on Thirties--change ringing--Melody III--Equal Distribution--Solos--more on Thirties--Melodies--John Cage--Merce Cunningham--Fractions--Equal Distribution No. 1--The Great Outdoors--Song III--Melody III--recording made in Greene Street Studio--work with various choreographers--Relative Calm--Return--Extensions--Lucinda Childs--working with Nancy--work with JoAnne Akalaitis.

Side e:                                                                                                            pp. 75-84

More on work with JoAnne Akalaitis--Voyage of the Beagle--Tom Buckner--playing with Philip Glass--concentrating on getting out his own work--In Good Company--working with Nina Winthrop.