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David Tudor

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I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.


— David Tudor


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I persist in performing.


— David Tudor


#performing #persist

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.


— David Tudor


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I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.


— David Tudor


#any #arouse #been #computer #digitally

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.


— David Tudor


#become #completely #find #observer #possible

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.


— David Tudor


#disposable #loudspeakers #made #should

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.


— David Tudor


#like #much #performing #putting #raising

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.


— David Tudor


#idea #instrument #itself #just #notion






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Did you know about David Tudor?

After a stint teaching at Darmstadt from 1956 to 1961 Tudor began to wind up his activities as a pianist to concentrate on composing. The composer with whom Tudor is particularly associated is John Cage. He wrote mostly electronic works many commissioned by Cage's partner choreographer Merce Cunningham.

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