Open Space 3, 4, & 5.(Review)

Publication: Computer Music Journal

Publication Date: 22-MAR-01

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COPYRIGHT 2001 MIT Press Journals

Elaine Barkin, Benjamin Boretz, et al. Steven Mackey, J.K. Randall: Open Space 3, 4, & 5

Compact discs, 1992/1993; available from Open Space Publications, Sycamore Drive, Red Hook, New York 12571, USA; telephone (914) 758-5785; fax (914) 758-6740; electronic mail postmaster@the-open-space.org; World Wide Web www.the-open-space.org/

Open Space is a new music collective that fosters aural imagineering, encourages collaborative creativity, and provides an "open space" for sounds, words, and other media which may not find accommodation elsewhere. Founded by Benjamin Boretz and others, the collective produces a periodical called The Open Space Magazine, maintains a web-based publication/forum called The Open Space Web Magazine (www.the-open-space.org/osonline/ osonline.html), and issues compact discs, videos, books, and scores through Open Space Publications (www.the-open-space.org/ oscat.html).

Some of the thirteen titles in the Open Space CD catalog are of historical as well as purely musical interest. These recordings present compositions, represent philosophies, or exhibit techniques originally discussed by their authors in Perspectives of New Music and other forums during the 1960s through the 1980s, and thus provide valuable aural documentation of that vital era. Such is the case with the three discs under review here, which include works dating from 1965-1968 through 1989. Each release features a diverse group of compositions, which nevertheless bear some fascinating touchpoints.

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