AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                  61 a,b

Ron Kuivala

with Vivian Perlis

Middletown, Connecticut

April 15, 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                             pp. 1-21

Family background--early musical experiences, interest in electronic music--college years at Wesleyan--attraction to atonal music--early experience with electronic music--first exposures to Cage--conceptual art--study at Mills College with Behrman, Ashley, Des Marais--interest in the visual arts--collaborations with other artists--permanent representation of his works--Cage’s music-- ‘mindless sound’ and conceptualism--thoughts on academic training--19th and 20th century philosophies on music--Gertrude Stein

Side b                                                                                                                        pp. 21-28

Rauschenberg piece-- ‘ultramodernism’--limitations of modern music technology on composers--sound quality and the sound worlds of recording-thoughts on ‘experimental composition’