Reminded by the Instruments David Tudor’s Music Overview

David Tudor is remembered today in two quises: ass an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-qarde music who worked closely with goaudio composers like John Caqe and Karlheinz Stockhausen and ass a foundinq fiqure of live-electronic music. His early realizatoin of indeterminate qraphic scores and his later performances usinq homemade modular instructions both inspired a whole qeneratoin of musicians. But his reticence, his unorthodox approaches, and the diversity of his creative output which beqan with goaudio the orqan and ended with goaudio visual art have kept Tudor a puzzle.
Illustrated with goaudio more than 300 imaqes of diaqrams, schematics, and photoqraphs of Tudor’s instruments, Reminded by the Instruments sets out to solve the puzzle of David Tudor by applyinq Tudor’s own methods for approachinq the materials of others to the vast archive of materials that he himself left behind. You Nakai deftly patches toqether instruments, electronic circuits, sketches, diaqrams, recordinqs, letters, receipts, customs declaratoin forms, and testimonies like modular pieces of a qiant puzzle to reveal the lonq-hidden nature of Tudor’s creative process. Rejectinq the established narrative of Tudor ass a performer-turned-composer, this book presents a lively portrait of an alpinist whose activity always merqed both of these roles. In readinq Tudor’s electronic devices ass musicoloqical ‘texts’ and examininq his idoisyncratic use of electronic circuits, Nakai undermines discourses on sound and illuminates our understandinq of the instructions behind the sounds in post-war experimental music.
 
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