Contents
 

Foreward by Robert Ashley
 

Landscape with David Behrman 

• “Extending our nervous systems” 

• Drifting Harmonies (Paul DeMarinis)

Landscape with Philip Glass

• “I’m making the rules” 

• Music of the Moment (Peter Gordon)

Landscape with Alvin Lucier

• “With and without purpose” 

• Stretching Our Imagination (Jill Kroesen)

Landscape with Gordon Mumma 

• “I’m using the by-product of my culture” 

• The System Is the Composition Itself (Maggi Payne)

Landscape with Pauline Oliveros

• “I can feel myself changing”

• Shedding Another Skin (Margaret Ahrens)

Landscape with Roger Reynolds 

• “I’m always interested in new experience” 

• Extending Instrumental Techniques (Paul Robinson)

Landscape with Terry Riley 

• “Music is my spiritual path”

• Terrry Is a Solo Act (Craig Hazen)

Landscape with Robert Ashley 

• Sound Changing Its Own Behaviour (Robert Sheff)

Epilogue 

• Robert Ashley Documents the Aether (Tom Johnson)

• Essayist’s Biographies

• Composers’ Selected Discographies 

• Index of Names