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good collection, Who was Cardew?,
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This review is from: Cornelius Cardew (Hardcover)
Cornelius Cardew emerged from the post-war avant-garde, he was the first to introduce the music of John Cage and Morton Feldman into to the bland conservatism that was the culture of England. He believed in an ethical basis for creating music, and always thought something more was required within the avant-garde besides "shock therapy" of John Cage or the rareified abstractions of Morton Feldman. Naturally the political card was not played until the various rebellions in Europe against the War in Vietnam, and the growing elitism in culture that was fast marginalizing students from jobs and education,today it is immigrants, not even students as the Paris Riots, Clichy Sous-Bois reveal; we see this in greater relief today where globalization has reduced every inch of the globe to a common denominator.
Cardew thought improvisation through graphic notation was sort of a welcome compromise, getting the best of both worlds, complexity, highly refined pieces, interaction of musicians, open form, indeterminate realms a la Cage,and socio-political committment. AMM the improvisation group for which his mounumental TREATISE was written serves as still the best most comprehensive particle of this paradigm. It is a score of 193 pages of musical graphics in impeccable draftsmenship but without a shred of instructions on how it is played. If you do not know who Cardew was, this is a good selection of old re-writes collection of articles from all over the place, the British journals, marginalized new music magazines that no one cares about any more. Deep probing essays by some of Cardew's close associates and friends are here to mine the depths of his activist ethical perspective in music, Eddie Prevost, John Tilbury, Christian Wolff, Howard Skempton. I don't know if anyone thinks of Cardew anymore since his turn to an extreme formation of Marxism in England sort of turned people off he could have made inroads with, that was part of his orthodoxy of the human spirit, Cardew I think will always be there as a means of measuring where music was suppose to be, what it was suppose to do to make it more accessible without giving in the market surplus value schemes, the avant-garde was suppose to guard against the colonialization of one's lifeworld, that hasn't happened, in fact most composers today want to be colonized in the worst possible way, want to be loved like the death's head moth. Cardew may remind us of where we perhaps made a wrong turn.
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