AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                              113 a-d

Roger Reynolds

with Vincent Plush

Del Mar, CA

March 29, 1983

Table of Contents

Side a                                                                                                                         pp.1-20

Childhood in Detroit -- first musical experiences -- influence of Kenneth Aiken, first piano teacher -- piano recitals -- interest in physics and engineering -- University of Michigan -- lack of enthusiasm for engineering-physics program -- graduation -- profession as systems development engineer in California -- military service -- return to University of Michigan to study music -- Ross Lee Finney's class "Composition for non-composers" -- Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma -- conventional notation and conventional musical resources at beginning stages -- beginning of electronic resources use.

Side b                                                                                                                                    pp. 20-42

Roberto Gerhard's Concert For Eight, Nonet, Collage -- first pieces -- Epigrams -- String Quartet -- theory of elementalism -- Wiley Hitchcock -- honors program -- Edgar Varèse and Intégrales -- meeting with Varèse -- experience at Stratford Composers Festival -- ONCE Festival -- Portrait of Vanzetti -- Mosaic -- Tanglewood -- Koussevitzky composition prize for Consequent -- Acquaintances -- Blind Men -- Emperor Of Ice Cream -- Wedge -- Fulbright grant to Germany -- Bernd Alois Zimmermann's class at the Hochschule in Cologne -- wife Karen's Fulbright to Paris -- American Students and Artists Center -- Yuji Takahashi -- co-producing concerts at the Centre de Musique with Keith Humble and Jean-Charles François.

Side c                                                                                                                         pp. 42-64

American and French contemporary music -- first experience with John Cage -- Cage's pieces Cartridge Music and Silence -- The Interview with Roger Reynolds -- Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy -- Graffiti -- Quick Are The Mouths Of Earth -- The Institute of Current World Affairs -- Japanese influence -- Japanese language -- CROSS TALK Series -- Between -- Ping -- use of film -- Threshold -- Tom Nee -- UCSD Regents lectureship -- lectures in Southeast Asia -- several articles written on Asian music -- meeting with Buckminster Fuller.

Side d                                                                                                                                    pp. 64-85

I/O with Buckminster Fuller -- Encounters Series -- discussion of various works -- Ping -- Compass -- performance of Again in France with Lukas Foss -- funding from Rockefeller Foundation -- UCSD's Center For Music Experiment and Related Research -- (CME) -- Kenneth Gaburo's New Music Choral Ensemble -- political situation at CME -- origin of Voicespace Series -- Still -- The Palace -- Eclipse -- INTERMEDIA Festival -- Vinko Globokar -- On Behalf of Music -- IRCAM -- experimentation with digitally processed sound -- Archipelago at IRCAM -- Aether commissioned by The Library of Congress -- larger media work -- Tempest -- interest in future projects of experimental theater.