MTHY 571T American Experimental Music
The course is centered around the works of John Cage, his innovative thinking about music and ways of music organization. Beginning with the seminal works Lecture on Nothing and 4’33, students follow the development of American Experimental Music through the study of Morton Feldman, Christian Wolf, Earl Brown, Cornelius Cardew, James Tenney, Marianne Amacher, Pauline Oliveros, Michael Pissaro, Jurg Frey and Wandelwiser group. The interdisciplinary aspects of experimental music-making reflect in creative projects including relationships between music and science and technology such as the Cage package in Max/Msp.