CMA 553 Open Forms, Graphic Scores and Structured Improvisation
This class will explore the links and differences between the Open Form scores that emerged out of the post-Cagean world of the 1950s and 1960s and the Controlled Improvisation strategies that many composer-performers who come from the worlds of Jazz and Free Improvisation have utilized. Composers studied will include Earle Brown, Christian Wolff, Cornelius Cardew, Stockhausen, Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, John Zorn and others. In-class performance will be a crucial part of the class, with the eventual goal of at least one public performance.