Part of my longtime project A Brief History Of which wants to explore the 20th century culture. As an open curatorial project it grows rhizomatically in various directions. Since late 2009 I am assembling a list of influential works by composers, musicians, writers, philosophers, artists, filmmakers, choreographers and photographers. Next to popular stuff with high artistic impact you´ll find more unknown pieces of avantgarde origin, high next to so called low culture. Gradually the works should be described, interviews should be held and correlations should be researched. Although this project actually must be a work in progress it shall merge into a book and a film sometime.
This is (so far)…
1961
MICHEL FOUCAULT, Histoire de la folie à l´age classique – Folie et déraison
BENJAMIN BRITTEN, War Requiem
Wilfred Owen
IGOR STRAVINSKY, A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer
JOHN CAGE, Music for Carillon 4
LUCIANO BERIO, Visage (extended vocal techniques and electronics)
HENRI POUSSEUR, Votre Faust (opera in collaboration with Michel Butor)
PAULINE OLIVEROS, Sound Patterns (extended vocal techniques)
ALBERTO GINASTERA, Piano Concerto No.1
GIL EVANS, Out Of The Cool (Impulse)
BILL EVANS, The Village Vanguard Sessions/Move from the Vanguard (Milestone)
OLIVER NELSON, Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse)
JIMMY GIUFFRE, Fusion (chamber free jazz)
HOWLIN WOLF, Rockin Chair
THE TOKENS, The Lion Sleeps Tonight (uses operatic singing, Neapolitan choir, yodel, proto-electronics)
ROGER REYNOLDS, ROBERT ASHLEY & GORDON MUMMA, Organization of the first ONCE festival of avantgarde music at Ann Arbor (Michigan)
BÜLENT AREL, EL-DABH, USSACHEVSKY ET AL, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
LA MONTE YOUNG, Creation of the „dream house“, where the environment is part of the music
CECIL TAYLOR, New York City R&B
LEE KONITZ, Motion (Verve)
ROBERT MORRIS, Box With The Sound Of Its Own Making
THE ART OF ASSEMBLAGE, Exhibition MoMA, NY (Braque, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Schwitters, Joseph Cornell, Man Ray)
CLEMENT GREENBERG, Art and Culture
CLAES OLDENBURG, The Store
PIERO MANZONI, Merda d´Artista (30 grams/90 cans; some exploded)
PIERO MANZONI, Socle du Monde
BILL BRANDT, Perspectives of Nudes
MASAYA NAKAMURA, Young Nudes
WILLIAM CLAXTON, Jazz Life
SHOMEI TOMATSU, KEN DOMON, Hiroshima – Nagasaki Document 1961
EIKOH HOSOE, Man and Woman
ROBERT BREER, Blazes (4000 pictures in a fast lane)
ALAIN RESNAIS, L´Année dernière à Marienbad (1960)
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT, Jules et Jim
LUIS BUNUEL, Viridiana
BILLY WILDER, One, Two, Three (THE Cold War comedy)
ROBERT WISE, West Side Story
BASIL DEARDEN, Victim (first important British film with a non-judgmental homosexual theme)
JOHN HUSTON, The Misfits (Anti-Western/last appearances of Monroe and Gable)
ATLAS 