Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew (7 May 1936 – 13 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected experimental music, explaining why he had "discontinued composing in an avantgarde idiom" in his own programme notes to his Piano Album 1973.[1]
In 1999, Page 183 of Cardew's was performed by the experimental rock group Sonic Youth on their album SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century.
Treatise
A character called "Cornelius Cardew" appears (as a caricature of a political radical) in the 1980 novel .
The Shooting Party
The German musician and composer published a Cardew-inspired work in 2001, titled Ekkehard Ehlers plays Cornelius Cardew, which was released on Staubgold Records.[11]
Ekkehard Ehlers
The US band The Music Lovers name-checked Cardew in the song, "Thank You, Cornelius Cardew". It appears on their 2006 album, The Music Lovers' Guide for Young People.
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The Great Learning (Deutsche Grammophon, 1971)
Four Principles on Ireland and Other Pieces 1974 (Cramps, 1975)
Memorial Concert (Impetus, 1985)
Thälmann Variations (Matchless, 1986)
Piano Music (B&L, 1991)
Piano Music 1959–70 (Matchless, 1996)
Treatise (hatART, 1999)
We Only Want the Earth (Musicnow, 2001)
Apartment House Chamber Music 1955–64 (Matchless, 2001)
We Sing for the Future! (New Albion, 2001)
Material (hatART, 2004)
Consciously (Musicnow, 2006)
Treatise with Keith Rowe (Planam, 2009)
Treatise with Petr Kotik (Mode, 2009)
Works 1960–70 (+3 dB, 2010)
Treatise (Harsh-Noise Version) (Sublime Recapitulation, 2013)
. "Cardew as a Basis for a Discussion on Ethical Options". Leonardo Music Journal 11 (2001): 13–15.
Aharonián, Coriún
Anderson, Virginia. "" Journal of Experimental Music Studies (uploaded 17 March 2004).
Chinese Characters and Experimental Structure in Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning
Anderson, Virginia. "". OpenDemocracy (5 May 2006).
Cornelius Cardew Lives
Bains, Hardial. "The Question Is Really One of Word and Deed" (unpublished speech delivered 21 December 1996, as part of the seminar, "In Commemoration of Cornelius Cardew, 1936–1981", organised by the Progressive Cultural Association)
Cardew, Cornelius. Cornelius Cardew: A Reader, edited by Edwin Prévost, introduction by Michael Parsons. Harlow, Essex: Copula, 2006. 0-9525492-2-0. (A collection of Cornelius Cardew's published writings together with commentaries and responses from Richard Barrett, Christopher Fox, Brian Dennis, Anton Lukoszevieze, Michael Nyman, Eddie Prévost, David Ryan, Howard Skempton, Dave Smith, John Tilbury and Christian Wolff.)
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Cardew, Cornelius, ed. Scratch Music 0-262-53025-2. (Scratch Orchestra draft constitution, notes, scores, catalogue, and 1001 Activities.)
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Clark, Philip. "Cornelius Cardew: Schematic for the People". The Wire (November 2009): 30–33.
Eno, Brian. "Generating and Organizing Variety in the Arts". In Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, 226–33. New York and London: Continuum Books, 2004. 0826416144 (A study of "Paragraph 7" of The Great Learning.)
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Fox, Edward. "Death of a Dissident". The Independent Magazine (9 May 1992): 24–30.
Marko, Vladimir. at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 January 2008) [Cornelius Cardew—From Ludwig Wittgenstein to Mao Tse-Tung]. Scena: časopis za pozorišnu umetnost no. 4, 2006.
"Cornelius Cardew—od Ludwiga Wittgensteina do Mao Tse-Tunga"
McKay, George. . Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Chapter 4: 'The politics and performance of improvisation and contemporary jazz in the 1960s and 1970s'.
Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
Nyman, Michael. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Parsons, Michael. "The Scratch Orchestra and the Visual Arts". Leonardo Music Journal 11 (2001): 5–11.
Schonfield, Victor. "Cornelius Cardew, AMM, and the Path to Perfect Hearing". Jazz Monthly 159 (May 1968): 10–11..
Taylor, Timothy D. "Moving in Decency: The Music and Radical Politics of Cornelius Cardew" Music & Letters 79, no.4 (November 1998): 555–76.
Tilbury, John. "" Contact no. 26 (Spring 1983): 4–12
Cornelius Cardew
Tilbury, John. "The Experimental Years: A View from the Left" Contact 22 (1981): 16–21. Reprinted online in (17 March 2004).
Journal of Experimental Music Studies
Tilbury, John. . Harlow: Copula, an imprint of Matchless Recordings and Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9525492-3-9 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-9525492-4-6 (pbk)
Cornelius Cardew: A Life Unfinished
Varela, Daniel. "" Journal of Experimental Music Studies.
'A Question of Language': Frederic Rzewski in conversation about Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew on British Composers Project
Information and CD of Peoples Liberation Music
(includes PDF of Stockhausen Serves Imperialism and commentary by Kyle Gann.)
UbuWEB Historical: Cornelius Cardew
Includes the Cornelius Cardew Reader, and recordings with AMM and of his piano works by John Tilbury
Cornelius Cardew on Matchless Recordings
Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert (1985)
UbuWEB: Cornelius Cardew
by Cornelius Cardew (1971)
UbuWEB Papers: Toward an Ethic of Improvisation
at the Block Museum Website
An online animated analysis of Treatise
Online recordings of Treatise by the Seattle Improv Meeting
Online recordings of "Treatise" by Matt Smiley
at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 January 2008) (January 2007) at Belsona Strategic record label site
Thomas Bey William Bailey. "A Sound Artist's Critique of 'Stockhausen Serves Imperialism'"
: exhibition and concert series presented at CAC Brétigny (France) curated by Jean Jacques Palix and Dean Inkster (2009)