Guide to the New Arts Forum Collection
ARS.0073
Finding aid prepared by Franz Kunst
Archive of Recorded Sound
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Descriptive Summary
Title: New Arts Forum Collection
Date: 1972
Collection number: ARS.0073
Creator:
Bielawa, Herbert
Collection size:
1 box:
7 open reel tapes
Repository:
Archive of Recorded Sound
Abstract: Recorded works from American academic electronic music studios, originally submitted to the New Arts Forum series of concerts
at San Francisco State University and elsewhere. The Forum was produced by Herbert Bielawa and D. Gareth Loy in 1972.
Language of Material: English
Access
Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive for
assistance.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
Preferred Citation
New Arts Forum Collection, ARS-0073. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Sponsor
This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Scope and Contents
The New Arts Forum Collection consists of seven open reel tapes originally submitted to the New Arts Forum series of electronic
music concerts at San Francisco State University (known at the time as San Francisco State College) and elsewhere. The Forum
was produced by composer and teacher Herbert Bielawa and D. Gareth Loy in 1972. Material came from composers then active at
American electronic music studios in Atlanta, SUNY-Albany, McGill, and University of Illinois, as well as SF State's own studio.
Arrangement
These recordings were used in performance. There is some possibility that tapes, reels, and boxes may have been mixed up.
Aural confirmation is necessary to correctly determine contents.
Indexing Terms
New Arts Forum.
San Francisco State University.
Electronic music
Box 1
Atlanta Electronic Music Center, director Richard Robinson
1972-01-10
Physical Description:
1 10.5" open tape reel
creator:
Mills, Harvey
creator:
Robinson, Richard Allan
creator:
Stegall, Sydney
Scope and Contents
Ambience (1970) ; Formant Piece (1967) / Richard Robinson -- Herr Professor Kreidebrechen's Herzmuscheldrehen (1971) ; J'ai
Vonie / Sydney Stegall -- Dorain Green (1971) / Harvey Mills -- Alea (1971-1972) ; Band 220 (1971) / Richard Robinson
Box 1
Catholic University of America Electronic Music Laboratory, director H. Emerson Meyers
1972-01-10
Physical Description:
1 10.5" open tape reel
creator:
Ecton, Richard
creator:
Gingery, Ralph
creator:
Mardirosian, Haig
creator:
Meyers, Emerson
Scope and Contents
Rhythmus (1970) / E. Meyers -- Konzept II (1972) / Haig Mardirosian -- Parameters (for flute and two-channel tape, 1971) ;
Seneca (for percussion and two-channel tape) / Richard Ecton -- In Memoriam (for soprano and tape, 1966) / E. Meyers -- Aeimptx
(for pre-recorded sounds, 1971) / Ralph Gingery -- Intervals I (1969) / E. Meyers -- Fantasia (for organ and two-channel tape,
1970) / Haig Mardirosian.
All electronic sounds made on Moog equipment plus an alexophone and standard audio physics laboratory equipment. 3, 4, and
8 recorded with soloists in studio. 5 recorded in concert. All composers other than Professor Meyers were students at Catholic
University.
Box 1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Experimental Music Studio, directors Herbert Brun and James Beauchamp [strong likelihood
that this is McGill University Electronic Music Studio recordings, Tape 2. see note]
1972-01-27
Physical Description:
1 10.5" open tape reel
Scope and Contents
As noted on reel and beneath label on tape box: Fourth of July Celebration, Chambana 1969 / Phillip Musser -- Hymn 173 (1971)
/ Barry Brosch -- Streams and Impulses (1971) / James Beauchamp -- ! Ovarb (1971) / Phillip Musser -- Chairs / Barry Brosch
-- Infraudibles / Herbert Brun.
As noted on label taped over previous credits on tape box: McGill University Electronic Music Studio, director Paul Pederson.
Tape 2. 1972-02. Cento / Istvan Anhalt -- For Margaret, Motherhood, and Mendelssohn / Paul Pedersen -- Uber Allen Gipfeln
Ist Ruh... / Albert Mayr.
Box 1
McGill University Electronic Music Studio
1972
Physical Description:
1 10.5" open reel tape
Scope and Contents
sticker on tape box identifing contents is missing
Box 1
McGill University Electronic Music Studio. Tape 1.
1972-02
Physical Description:
1 10.5" open tape reel
creator:
Anhalt, István
Scope and contents
Foci / Istvan Anhalt
Box 1
Electronic Music from San Francisco State [program was in tape box]
1972
Physical Description:
1 10.5" open tape reel
Box 1
State University of New York at Albany Electronic Music Studio [Chadabe letter was in tape box]
1972
Physical Description:
1 10.5" open tape reel
creator:
Chadabe, Joel
Scope and Contents
Rounds, a Jazz Collage (1972) / Joel Chadabe
2. Program and correspondence
Physical Description:
1 folder
Box 1
correspondence from Joel Chadabe to Herbert Bielawa
1972-01-27
Box 1
program for New Arts Forum Electronic Music Premiere No.8, with illustrated handbill for several events on reverse
1972