Mumma's energetic perspectives on so many topics
as a scholar, inventor, technician, performer, composer, photographer, historian, and documentarian
richly enhance our perspective on this period of rapid change and fruitful innovation. A beautiful and much-anticipated achievement.
Amy C. Beal, author of Johanna Beyer and Carla Bley The firsthand histories flowing from this book are precious, provided by one ... Read moreof the unsung heroes of the American electronic music scene, Gordon Mumma... A valuable resource.
Neural A contemporary history of a particularly fertile and disruptive time in the advanced arts... Mumma's book bears articulate witness to how this flexible discipline played itself out in concrete situations over the decades.
Avant Music News An excellent and engaging book that can take its readers to a dizzying array of places, real and metaphoric. It is an admirable introduction to the mind and spirit of Gordon Mumma as well as a vivid and loving remembrance of an amazing time in the history of music.
ARSC Journal As all great books about music lead you to do, I couldn't help but reach up to my CD shelves, where various Mumma discs releases on lables like New World and Tzadik are housed.
Gramophone What counts here is the spirit of it, the inventiveness springing from an independence of imagination as well as the willingness and financial necessity to work outside the given conditions of the time. Mumma shows us how that spirit is in fact crucial and, always, of essential value.
Christian Wolff, from the foreword A wonderful resource for music and the arts, the book can be read as narrative or used as reference. Highly recommended.
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