We have delivered ourselves from the tonal
Subtitle: of, towards, on, for Julius Eastman
By: project initiated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung ; curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Antonia Alampi, Berno Odo Polzer ; edited by Federica Bueti, Antonia Alampi, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Edition: First edition 2020.
Publisher: SAVVY Contemporary in collaboration with Archive Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Berlin]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9783948212117
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Interviews; Correspondence; Avant-garde (Music); Performance art; Musique expérimentale
Description: "We Have Delivered Ourselves from the Tonal - Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman is a collection of essays, librettos, lyrics, memories, photos, personal anecdotes by musicians, visual artists, researchers and archivers that pays homage to the work and life of African-American composer, musician, performer, activist Julian Eastman. It investigates his legacy beyond the predominantly Western musicological format of the tonal or harmonic and the framework of what is today understood as minimalist music. By trying to complicate, deny or expatiate on the notions of the harmonic, tonal hierarchy, the triadic, or even the tonal centre, Eastman's compositions explore strategies and technologies of attaining the atonal. One might be tempted to see Eastman in the legacy of Bartok, Schoenberg, Berg  and others, but here too, it is worth shifting the geography of minimal tendencies and minimalism in music. It is worth istening and reading Eastman's music within the scope of what Oluwaseyi Kehinde describes as the application of chromatic forms such as polytonality, atonality, dissonance as the fulcrum in analysing some elements of African music such as melody, harmony, instruments and instrumentation. This publication constructs a non-linear genealogy of Eastman's practice and his cultural, political and social relevance, while situating his work within a broader rhizomatic relation of musical epistemologies and practices." --
Table of contents: title: We have delivered ourselves from the tonal - of, towards, on, for Julius Eastman  -- Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung; title: The extended geographies of Julius Eastman  -- Antonia Alampi ; Berno Odo Polzer ; Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung; title: The idea of Eastman : reflections on the Otolith Group's The third part of the third measure  -- George E. Lewis; title: That person or thing which attains to the ground of anything  -- Kodwo Eshun; title: On Julius Eastman  -- Mary Jane Leach; title: Buffalo '70  -- Sean Griffin; title: Recollection Julius Eastman : Buffalo, New York  -- Chris Rusiniak; title: Transcript of Julius Eastman's spoken introduction to the Northwestern University concert, January 16, 1980  -- Julius Eastman; title: Message from Julius Eastman and memoir  -- Rocco di Pietro; title: Eastman  -- Elaine Mitchener; title: Julius Eastman in his own voice (Spinning on air podcast, episode 2)  -- David Garland with Julius Eastman; title: I want you to  -- Artiste (Malak Helmy & Janine Armin); title: Dear Joan  -- Julius Eastman; title: Texts for Elegy V3 March 22, 2018  -- George E. Lewis; title: "Black forces" : Julius Eastman against minimalism  -- Sumanth Gopinath; title: Stay on it : border atonalism  -- Josh Kun; title: Regginigger, a play on Eastman's wor(l)ds of divinity  -- Pungwe (Memory Biwa & Robert Machiri); title: Notes on Julius Eastman's Buddha  -- Jean-Christophe Marti; title: The composer as weakling  -- Julius Eastman; title: Exhibition --; title: Invocations --; title: Biographies.