Paul Lansky

with Jeffrey Perry

July 7, 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                             pp. 1-43

A network model of music--music on CD--Musique Vérité--electronic music getting hooked--ends and means--the computer and notation--the ivory tower--eavesdropping speech and song--the idle chatter pieces--Lansky on Perle implication and reference--loudspeakers: windows or instruments--the audience and computer music--about filters--saying things with a computer--craftsmanship: the composer shouting in your ear.

AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                           243j OHV

Paul Lansky

With Jack Vees

New Haven, CT

December 11, 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS

[Side j, Track 1]                                                                                 pp. 1-48

Father’s experiences as a singer—taking guitar lessons—his mother’s touring with Pete Seeger—father’s work in electron microscopes—Earle Brown—more on guitar study—guitar concerto for David Starobin—playing the French horn in his high school band—getting into the High School of Music and Art—classmates at Music and Art—playing in a wind quintet at Music and Art—Varèse [unclear]—meeting Stravinsky at the Museum for Modern Art—attending Queens College, study with George Perle, Felix Salzer and Hugo Weisgall—winning the Bearns Prize—friendship with Joshus Rifkin—graduate school at Princeton: Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone, James Randall, Peter Westergaard, Kenneth Levy—Godfrey Winham’s computer course—playing with the Dorian Wind Quintet after college—studying piano at Queens with Charles Burkhart—studying horn with Joseph Singer in high school—more on playing with the Dorian Wind Quintet, views on the wind quintet—realization that he didn’t want a performing career—playing in the orchestra at Aspen—writing a computer piece at Princeton, working with Milton Babbitt on it—taking seminars with Milton Babbitt—being hired at Princeton—his first computer piece mild und leise—[End Track 1] [Track 2] his love of rock ‘n’ roll—importance for him of the Beatles—Les Paul—Babbitt’s dislike of the Beatles—his collaboration with George Perle on twelve-tone tonality—mild und leise—new rationality after the Second World War—avant-garde as a reaction to the war, social realism and Nazi authoritarianism—other composers active—Messiaen, Boulez, Stockhausen—Artifice—Crossworks—composing instrumental pieces—Campion Fantasies—folk song settings—involvement in writing tonal music—Idle Chatter: based on his first impressions of rap—Smalltalk—Notjustmoreidlechatter—horn trio written for William Purvis—his most recent computer music CD: Pavane Noire.