The Names of Minimalism

2023-01-19 Music

Author : Patrick Nickleson
Release : 2023-01-19
Genre : Music
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Download or read book The Names of Minimalism written by Patrick Nickleson. This book was released on 2023-01-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimalism stands as the key representative of 1960s radicalism in art music histories—but always as a failed project. In The Names of Minimalism, Patrick Nickleson holds in tension collaborative composers in the period of their collaboration, as well as the musicological policing of authorship in the wake of their eventual disputes. Through examinations of the droning of the Theatre of Eternal Music, Reich’s Pendulum Music, Glass’s work for multiple organs, the austere performances of punk and no wave bands, and Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca’s works for massed electric guitars, Nickleson argues for authorship as always impure, buzzing, and indistinct. Expanding the place of Jacques Rancière’s philosophy within musicology, Nickleson draws attention to disciplinary practices of guarding compositional authority against artists who set out to undermine it. The book reimagines the canonic artists and works of minimalism as “(early) minimalism,” to show that art music histories refuse to take seriously challenges to conventional authorship as a means of defending the very category “art music.” Ultimately, Nickleson asks where we end up if we imagine the early minimalist project—artists forming bands to perform their own music, rejecting the score in favor of recording, making extensive use of magnetic type as compositional and archival medium, hosting performances in lofts and art galleries rather than concert halls—not as a utopian moment within a 1960s counterculture doomed to fail, but as the beginning of a process with a long and influential afterlife.

The Longing for Less

2020-01-21 Art

Author : Kyle Chayka
Release : 2020-01-21
Genre : Art
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Download or read book The Longing for Less written by Kyle Chayka. This book was released on 2020-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Yorker staff writer and Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the deep roots-and untapped possibilities-of our newfound, all-consuming drive to reduce. “Less is more”: Everywhere we hear the mantra. Marie Kondo and other decluttering gurus promise that shedding our stuff will solve our problems. We commit to cleanse diets and strive for inbox zero. Amid the frantic pace and distraction of everyday life, we covet silence-and airy, Instagrammable spaces in which to enjoy it. The popular term for this brand of upscale austerity, “minimalism,” has mostly come to stand for things to buy and consume. But minimalism has richer, deeper, and altogether more valuable gifts to offer. In The Longing for Less, one of our sharpest cultural critics delves beneath the glossy surface of minimalist trends, seeking better ways to claim the time and space we crave. Kyle Chayka's search leads him to the philosophical and spiritual origins of minimalism, and to the stories of artists such as Agnes Martin and Donald Judd; composers such as John Cage and Julius Eastman; architects and designers; visionaries and misfits. As Chayka looks anew at their extraordinary lives and explores the places where they worked-from Manhattan lofts to the Texas high desert and the back alleys of Kyoto-he reminds us that what we most require is presence, not absence. The result is an elegant synthesis of our minimalist desires and our profound emotional needs. With a new afterword by the author.

The Names of Minimalism

2017

Author : Patrick Nickleson
Release : 2017
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Download or read book The Names of Minimalism written by Patrick Nickleson. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several of the composers we most frequently label "minimalists" have been engaged in disputes about musical authorship with fellow composers and former colleagues. This dissertation uses those disputes as starting points towards understanding minimalism as a practice of authorial critique. Drawing on the philosopher Jacques Rancière, I also examine the historiographical practices that have frequently denied that critique any efficacy. In the introduction I outline Rancière's method of dispute, and how histories of minimalism have used composers' later renunciations to deny the minimalist critique of authorship any efficacy. To exemplify this method, I consider the "confiscations" in effect when musicologists read Reich's "Music as a Gradual Process" and Pendulum Music. Chapter 1 introduces Rancièrian concepts of importance throughout my study-politics and police, the pedagogic relation, noise and "low music"-through considering Rancière's disputes with his professor Louis Althusser, his classmate Jacques-Alain Miller, and his "friend-enemy" Alain Badiou. Chapter 2 examines the conflict between La Monte Young and Tony Conrad over the authorial propriety of the music they created together in the Theatre of Eternal Music. I draw on primary documents to argue that the ensemble functioned as the first appearance of compositional collectivism in western art music. Chapter 3 considers a pair of disputes: between Terry Riley and Steve Reich, and, between Reich and Philip Glass. Through a close reading of interviews from the late 1980s and early 1990s, I show how these composers retroactively articulated a singular minimalism by effacing collaboration in favour of pedagogic transmission. Chapter 4 leaps ahead into the era of the "death of minimalism" to consider the relationship between Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham. I focus in particular on the diverse applications of the terms "minimal" in in late 1970s downtown New York to show the many "indistinct minimalisms" (including punk and no wave) ongoing at the time. In the conclusion, I articulate a Rancièrian theory of names and naming to tie together several themes from the different case studies. My concern is to ask how the authorial name-whether proper, collective, or improper-attached to a piece of music impacts our historiographical treatment.

Minimalism Is The Name Of The Game

2018-10-22 Business & Economics

Author : Madeleine Wilson
Release : 2018-10-22
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Minimalism Is The Name Of The Game written by Madeleine Wilson. This book was released on 2018-10-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimalism Is The Name Of The Game: 30 Days Minimalism Challenge With Practical Tips For Clearing Out, For More Calmness, Satisfaction, Success And Luck In Life. You always have to keep up with others? Stress and dissatisfaction shape your everyday life and you don't know how to change your life for the better? Then you will feel just like me in my past, until I have changed my life and switched to a minimalist lifestyle! So don't hesitate and start now into a simple, happy and stress-free life with my minimalism guide! Our world today is shaped by consumerism and we are confronted every day with advertisements that suggests that material goods bring us happiness and contentment. It is about as much as possible To earn money to live a life of material abundance. However, this lifestyle is associated with much Stress, work and little time associated with the important things in life such as friends and family. And the inevitable question arises: Is it all worth it? I would like to bring you closer to a lifestyle that is the opposite of excessive consumption: minimalism. Minimalism will bring serenity, peace and joy back into your life. Through this book you will understand why it is time to turn your back on consumer society and cultivate a minimalist lifestyle. Here I will give you a detailed step by step guide for your very own individual path into a minimalistic life. I will explain to you what minimalism is and what it brings you personally, how you start into a minimalist life and which methods and tips help you to lead a long-term minimalist life. Don't waste any more time and finally make time for the important things in life again: More money, time, peace and love! Don't leave it to dreaming. Do something good for yourself and take some time for this guide. So don't hesitate and take now the first step into your new, simple, happy and stress-free life. Try it out - it's worth it!

Made in Los Angeles

2016-04-01 Art

Author : Rachel Rivenc
Release : 2016-04-01
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 657/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Made in Los Angeles written by Rachel Rivenc. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, a group of Los Angeles artists fashioned a body of work that has come to be known as the “LA Look” or West Coast Minimalism. Its distinct aesthetic is characterized by clean lines, simple shapes, and pristine reflective or translucent surfaces, and often by the use of bright, seductive colors. While the role of materials and processes in the advent of these truly indigenous Los Angeles art forms has often been commented on, it has never been studied in depth — until now. Made in Los Angeles focuses on four pioneers of West Coast Minimalism — Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, and John McCracken — whose working methods, often borrowed from other industries, featured the use of synthetic paints and resins as well as industrial processes to create objects that are both painting and sculpture. Bell, for example, coated plate glass with films of material that alter the way the light is absorbed, reflected, and transmitted, while Kauffman employed a process usually reserved for commercial signs for his work. McCracken coated plywood with fiberglass then spray painted it with countless layers of automotive paints, and Irwin spray-painted discs of hammered aluminum or vacuum-formed plastics. The detailed study of each artist’s work is presented in the context of the emergence of modern art in Los Angeles, the burgeoning mid-twentieth-century gallery scene, and the light-infused LA cityscape. Initially undertaken as part of the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.1945–1980 initiative, this volume combines technical art history and scientific analysis to investigate conservation issues associated with the work of these artists, which are often emblematic of issues in the conservation of contemporary art in general.

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