[Music of the Avant-Garde]. Source: Music of the Avant-garde, Issue No. 9 . A historic and beautifully designed endeavor with stunning typography, multiple paper stocks, multi-colored scores, LPs, and the famous "fur music." Issue No. 9 - Vol. 5, No. 1 (1971). 13.5 x 10.75 inches, bound with plastic spiral comb. The issue includes: Lowell Cross's Musica Instrumentalis (a diagram with cut-out pages and an envelope with the actual score: five photographs); Arrigo Lora-Tontino; Marilyn Wood; Jim Burns; Manford Eaton; Jacques Brodier; Ed Kobrin; Alvin Curran; Paul Klerr; Anna Lockwood; Nelson Howe; Nicolas Slonimsky. RECORD 5: Lowell Cross-VIDEO II & Arrigo Lora-Totino-ENGLISH PHONEMES. RECORD 6: Alvin Curran-MAGIC CARPET & Anna Lockwood-TIGER BALM. The score for FUR MUSIC is notated with actual fur.


"Source" was and remains a seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some of the most important composers and artists of the time. A pathbreaking publication, it documented crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music. Larry Austin was the founding editor of Source and is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of North Texas.