Out of Print, Miscellaneous Writings: Polansky

miscellaneous short writings
polansky
12/06/06

(letters, articles published in hard-to-find places, privately circulated writings, slightly different versions of published writings)

List of larger publications

out of print articles, monographs, short writings, introductions

Cage remembrance, short piece solicited by and written for Musicworks on "recollections of cage"
Introduction to Nick Didovsky's Skin scorebook, published by punos music
17 thoughts on "music since 1960" (in the form of a haiku), solicited by SIMS conference, australia, 1989; published in sounds australian
Item: Lou Harrison's role as a speculative theorist. A Lou Harrison Reader. Soundings Press. 1987.
"The Unsung Malvina Reynolds", written for the Berkeley Stage Co. Newsletter, for a revue of Reynolds' songs, 1983.
"It belongs to harmony to stir the passions...", experimental orchestral tuning for a piece never composed, MusicWorks/Only Paper Today, 1978.
"The Art of Apostasy," J.A.C.O.B. 's Letter: The Jewish Quarterly for the Arts for San Francisco and the Bay Area, January-March 1985, Vol. V, No. 1
17 for the 36, for ocarina, soprano sax, flute (optional slide whistle, female speaker), very short piece based on a Scholem text, Generation Magazine, January/February, 1978.
"Interval Sizes in Javanese Slendro," Balungan, Vol. 1, No. 2, February 1985.
"Comparitive Tuning Chart" and "Notes on the Tuning of Three Slendro/Pelog Pairs", Experimental Musical Instruments, Vol. V. No. 2, August 1990
“History and the Word: Form and Tonality in Schoenberg's Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment,” ex tempore, 3(1): 29-40, 1985.
Unpublished paper, "The New Music Indonesia Commissioning Project: Goals and Problems in a Cross-Cultural Collaboration," delivered at UC Berkeley conference in early 1990s, about the commissioning project which resulted in the 3 Lyrichord CDs of contemporary Indonesian music.
“The Mills College Center for Contemporary Music's 'Seminar in Formal Methods Series': A Documentary History of the First Five Years,” with John Levin, Leonardo, 20(2): 155–163.

books and monographs

The Early Works of James Tenney, monograph, published in Soundings #12, 1983.
Divisions of the Tetrachord (John Chalmers), LP, editor. Frog Peak Music.

liner and program notes

Liner notes to David Mahler's Artifact CD of his early tape music works
Liner notes to Sarah Cahill's New Albion CD of the piano music of Ruth Crawford Seeger and Johanna Beyer
Liner notes to U Can Unlearn Guitar CD, Yelpco CDs, 2002
Program notes for Dane Rudhyar's Chansons de Belitis, San Francisco Symphony
Program notes for James Tenney's Three Indigeneous Songs, San Francisco Symphony (this is taken largely from the Soundings monograph)

articles in 1/1, The Journal of the Just Intonation Newtork

Confessions of a Lousy Carpenter. 1:1, Winter, 1985.
Guest Editoral, second issue, 1:2, Spring 1985
Notes on Piano Study #5 for JPR, 1:4, Autumn, 1985
HMSL Intonation Enviroment, 3:1, Winter, 1987
Canon for Flute, 6:2, Spring, 1990
ii-v-i. 10:2, Fall, 1999.

reviews

Review of Colin Mcphee biography by Carol Oja, Ethnomusicology, but with one line deleted (about Margaret Mead, line replaced here)

miscellaneous

how would extra-terrestrials hear music? (letter, in response to an email question)
Recent set of notes on sonification and mapping written in response to a short essay on tufte by ed childs on a similar topic to the above, an email conversation with paul doornbusch on algorithmic composition and mapping
Two short interview fragments, Evos Newsletter #9, Perth, Australia, 1988 (apologies that certain attributions to Herbert Brun's ideas weren't transcribed in the print version)
Letter about music software to Recording Engineer /Producer, October 1987

selected short pieces in OP, OPtion, SoundChoice (early 1980s)

OP Magazine

"P" issue (March-April, 1983): Riley Puckette, David Pate
"R" issue (1983): Red Clay Ramblers
"S" issue (1983): Stanley Bros., Shape Note Music (Sacred Harp), Gary Schmidt
"T" issue (Nov. -Dec. 1983): "Available Materials By and About James Tenney"
"U" issue (Jan. - Feb. 1984): Interview with David Rosenboom

OPtion Magazine

Bill Colvig, Option Magazine, C²Issue, 1985