Sunday, June 7, 2009

SELECTED RECORDINGS (composition chronology)

SINFONIA FOR 12 INSTRUMENTS & MAGNETIC TAPE (1958-60) 12'03
ONCE Festival Chamber Orchestra, Wayne Dunlap, cond.
( premiere performance, rec: 1961 Mar. 4 )
New World Records NWR 5-CD-set # 80567-2 (CD # 1)

from GESTURES II (1958-60) (four sections) 13'14
( ONCE Festival premiere, 1962 Feb. 16 )
Robert Ashley & Gordon Mumma, pianists
New World Records NWR 5-CD-set # 80567-2 (CD # 2)

from GESTURES II (1958-60) (two sections) 1'20
Gordon Mumma & David Tudor, pianists
(rec: Boulder, Colorado, 1968 July)
New World Records NWR CD # 80651-2

MEANWHILE, A TWOPIECE (1961) 7'16
( ONCE Festival premiere, 1962 Feb. 10 )
Robert Ashley, piano & percussion; Gordon Mumma, horn & percussion
New World Records NWR 5-CD-set # 80567-2 (CD # 3)

LARGE SIZE MOGRAPH 1962 8'09
[1] Larry Leitch, piano ( ONCE Concert premiere, 1962 Dec. 16 )
New World Records NWR 5-CD-set # 80567-2 (CD # 3)
[2] Daan Vandewalle, piano NWR/HR2 # 80868-2 (2-CD set)

from MOGRAPHS (1962-64) 9'30
Gordon Mumma & David Tudor, pianists
New World Records NWR CD # 80651-2

A QUARTER OF FOURPIECE (1962) 4'56
The Hartt Chamber Players
( ONCE Festival performance, 1963 Jan. 30 )
New World Records NWR 5-CD-set # 80567-2 (CD # 2)

MEGATON FOR WM.BURROUGHS (1963) 22'35
( ONCE Group premiere, 1964 Feb. 28 )
Lovely Music LP VR 1091 (stereo LP- disk)
New World Records NWR CD # 80632-2 )

MEDIUM SIZE MOGRAPH 1963 8'40 piano 4-hands with cybersonics
Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma, pianists
( ONCE Festival performance, Feb. 1965 )
Tzadik CD # 7074

GREYS (1963) 3'19 stereo electronic music for
Donald Scavarda 's film/score GREYS
New World Records NWR 5-CD-set # 80567-2 (CD # 3)

MUSIC FROM THE VENEZIA SPACE THEATRE (1964) 11'55
quadraphonic electroacoustic music
Advance FGR-5 (monaural LP-disk)
Lovely Music LP VR # 1091 (stereo LP-disk)
Lovely Music CD # 1093

PEASANT BOY (1964) 8’54
collaborative music with the Bob James Trio
ESP-DISK # 1009, Side B track 1 (stereo LP-disk),
ESP CD # 1009-2, track 4

THE DRESDEN INTERLEAF 13 FEBRUARY 1945
(1965) 12'34
quadraphonic electroacoustic music
( ONCE Festival premiere, 1965 Feb 13 )
JME-1 (Argentina) (monaural LP-disk)
Lovely Music VR # 1091 (stereo LP- disk)
Lovely Music CD # 1093

HORN (1965) 9'34 live-performance cybersonic music
( rec: 1965 April )
Gordon Mumma, horn, Robert Ashley & George Cacioppo, voices;
William Ribbens, cybersonics
Tzadik CD # 7074

MESA (1966) 22'45
David Tudor, bandoneon; Gordon Mumma, cybersonics
CBS Odyssey # 3216-0158, CBS-France # S-346-0165
(stereo LP disk-recordings)
Lovely Music VR-1092 (direct-metal-master LP-disk)
Tzadik CD # 7074.
Live performance with the Cunningham Dance Co. PLACE
1966 Nov 9, Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris 19'35
NWR Music for Merce 10-CD set # 80712-2, disk 2

HORNPIPE (1967) 15'16 live-performance cybersonic music
Gordon Mumma, waldhorn, valve-horn, reed-horn, with cybersonics
Tzadik CD # 7074

CONSPIRACY 8 (1970) 19'00 live-computer,
acoustical instruments, cybersonics ( rec: 1970 Feb 20 )
Composition/performance collaboration with Stephen Smoliar,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
New World Records CD # 80632-2

SCHOOLWORK (1970) variable duration
music for folkloric instruments
[1] Ned Sublette, melodica; Joe Hannan, bowed psaltery;
Gordon Mumma, crosscut saw 8'58
( Live performance rec: 1979, The Kitchen, NYC.)
Orange Mountain Music CD # 0015#1
[2] David Behrman, bowed psaltery; Katherine Morton, melodica;
Gordon Mumma, saw 13'15 ( rec: 1972, Stockholm, Sweden )
Slowscan Vol. 9 (stereo analog-cassette)

TELEPOS (1972) 18'34
Live performance with the Cunningham Dance Co. TV-RERUN
1972 Sep 12, Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris
NWR Music for Merce 10-CD set # 80712-2, disk 3

CYBERSONIC CANTILEVERS (1973) 19'15
live-electronic music with public participation
Folkways LP FTS 33904 (abridged to 10'10, stereo LP-disk)
New World Records CD # 80632-2 (complete)

11 NOTE PIECES AND DECIMAL PASSACAGLIA (1970s) 7'40
[1] Linda Burman-Hall, solo harpsichord, with
OCTAL WALTZ (1980) 1'16
Musical Heritage Society CD # 513988A
[2] Gordon Mumma, solo harpsichord 7'15
Slowscan Vol. 9 (stereo analog-cassette)

ECHO-D (1978) 14'49 stereo electroacoustic music
Slowscan Vol. 9 (stereo analog-cassette)
Lovely Music CD # 1093

FWYYN (1979) 5'05 live-performance bandoneon duo
Composition/performance collaboration with Pauline Oliveros,
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 1980 Mar 4.
Lovely Music VR-1092 (direct-metal-master LP-disk)

PONTPOINT (1966-1980) 15'45 binaural electroacoustic music
Lovely Music VR # 1092 (direct-metal-master LP-disk)
Lovely Music CD # 1093

CIRQUALZ (1980) 5'39 stereo electronic acoustical cinema
New World Records CD # 80632-2

RETROSPECT (1959-82) 10'21 stereo electroacoustic music
Lovely Music CD # 1093

STRESSED SPACE PALINDROMES (1976-82) 6'55
stereo electronic music
Brain In The Wire CD # 004B (in 3-CD-set) (London, U.K.)

EPIFONT (1984) 4'30 stereo electroacoustic music
( in memoriam George Cacioppo )
Lovely Music CD # 1093

from FAISANDAGE ET GALIMAFRéE (1984) 7'10
Fanfare, March-Waltz, Hommage, Scherzo ( trios-divertimenti )
Leta Miller, flute, with Ensemble Nova, California
OPUS-1 #129-A (stereo LP-disk)

THAN PARTICLE (1985) 10'22 live-acoustical and
synthesized percussion
William Winant, percussion;
Gordon Mumma, computer synthesized percussion
Tzadik CD # 7074

FROM THE RENDITION SERIES (2006) 16’46
(piano with internal electronics)
Tomoko Mukaiyama, pianist; Gordon Mumma, live-electronics
( rec. premiere: Den Bosch, Netherlands, 2006 Nov 18 )
November Music 2006 CD, (track 7)

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