Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with the foremost musicians and
composers of the mid- to late 20th-century, from Yoko Ono to Brian Eno
Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrist's A Brief History of
Curating, this publication gathers the influential curator's interviews
with some of the foremost musicians and composers of the 1950s-1990s. It
brings together leading avant-garde composers of the early postwar
period such as Elliot Carter, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen;
pioneers of electroacoustic music such as François Bayle, Pauline
Oliveros, Iannis Xenakis and Peter Zinovieff; minimalist and
Fluxus-inspired artist-musicians such as Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Phil
Niblock, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich and Terry Riley; and figures that have
moved between classical/experimental realms and more pop terrain, such
as Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Howie B., Arto Lindsay and Caetano Veloso.
Obrist's interviews map the evolution of the new music in Europe and
America across all of its genres, from musique concrète to the recent
hybridizations between pop and avant-garde, as techniques from both
realms cross-pollinate. A Brief History of New Music is an ideal
introduction to the experimental and new classical music of the past
half-century.
