Jonathan,
Thank you for this treasure trove. As you would be well aware, very little
of Maxfield ever made it out into the public ear, including only one piece
in his lifetime ("Night Piece" on the 1967 Odyssey LP "New Sounds in
Electronic Music.") When I saw your link, I immediately reached out to my
friend Mark Milano, who has been studying/collecting non-European early
electronic and minimalist music for close to 30 years. He wrote:
"Wow ! I just picked up a new double LP of his music, and now this ! After
all these 50+ years since he got started there was only one album and one
other track, I certainly didn't see this deluge coming.
The double album contains interviews and pieces for conventional
instruments and about 18 minutes of tape music, so these pieces are not
duplicates and very welcome to say the least."
Maxfield is someone we've all wondered about for a long time: what he did
versus what his colleagues said he did, what he might have done had he
survived
the 'sixties. You have helped to open the door to that much wider. Thank
you!
David Neal Lewis
North Plainfield, NJ
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Jonathan Manton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> --Apologies for cross posting--
>
> The Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University is delighted to
> announce that the Richard Maxfield Collection (ARS.0074) can now be
> listened to online, via the collection's finding aid on the Online Archive
> of California http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6q2nf5jm/.
>
> This collection features nine distinct works by the pioneering American
> electronic music composer Richard Maxfield, composed between 1959-1964,
> four of which are believed to be previously unpublished (Dromenom,
> Electronic Symphony, Suite from Peripateia, and Wind). Additionally, as
> Maxfield frequently produced unique edits of his work for each performance,
> many of the open tape reels that form this collection include alternative
> edits to those previously published, such as the tapes for Amazing Grace
> which feature three different versions of the work.
>
> You can read more about Maxfield and this collection on the Stanford
> Libraries Blog -
> http://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2014/07/richard-maxfield-collection-now-streaming-online
> .
>
> Jonathan Manton
> Sound Archives Librarian
> Archive of Recorded Sound
>
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