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The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde. Edited by David W. Bernstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. (Book & DVD)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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1 For more information on other electronic music studios active at the time, see Davies, Hugh, Repertoire International des Musiques Electroacoustiques. International Electronic Music Catalog (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1968)Google Scholar.
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6 It should be noted, however, that Ramon Sender directly discusses aspects of Oliveros's struggle in his interview section, stating that “as a gay woman in the San Francisco music scene in the early 1960s, it was an absolute uphill battle for her. She had a very, very hard time” (79).
7 Significant sound and light work also took place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with Milton Cohen's “Space Theater,” inspired by the Vortex performances and featuring music by Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma. James's article “ONCE” includes photographs and a sizable amount of information on the Space Theater's genesis and early activities.
8 This category of improvisation has been dubbed “non-idiomatic improvisation” by Derek Bailey in Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music (New York: Da Capo Press, 1993).
9 See, for example, Lewis, George, “Improvised Music after 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives,” Black Music Research Journal 16/1 (Spring 1996): 91–121CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
10 Both Martin and Oliveros made the move to Mills and managed the Center for a time before leaving for other opportunities. The Mills College Center for Contemporary Music, inheritor of the SFTMC's legacy, continues to thrive and produce vital work.
11 At least three recordings created at the original SFTMC have been released commercially: on Pauline Oliveros, Electronic Works (Paradigm Discs PD04, 2006), and Ramon Sender, Worldfood (Locust 55, 2004) and Desert Ambulance (Locust 70, 2005).