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Principles of Human Systems Composing:
Is the music
clear?
enjoyable?
performable?
accessible?
identifiable?
portable?
variable?
recoverable?
multi-faceted?
open to silence?
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Musical scores and writings on structured improvisation. Poetry,
games, mathematics, unusual and familiar sounds, and texts and
concepts from varied spiritual traditions combine in multifaceted and
entertaining works that invite both musicians and non-musicians to
listen, create, perform, and enjoy.
"A wonderful invitation to participate in making music for musicians, interested people and educators. These scores will encourage you to sound the silenced self."
Pauline Oliveros
"Joe Zitt's writings and compositions are a fascinating and intensely personal synthesis of such diverse disciplines computers and mathematics, linguistics, and Jewish mysticism. His works are fun without being mindless or ostentatious."
Katherine Setar, Chabot College
Author, An Evolution in Listening
"Joseph Zitt's scores lead participants into the processes of
community. The thoughtfully constructed architecture of instructions
invote contributions that simultaneously challenge and support
creativity. In the traditions of Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Fluxus,
and the human potential movement, Joe's work welcomes us all into
musicmaking with people."
Thomas Bickley
Director, The Cornelius Cardew Choir
"Joe Zitt's work is inventive, playful, and profound. I found it
accessible to people of various performance and musical backgrounds,
stimulating for my own work, and good fun to perform! I'd recommend
it to anyone who's wanting to facilitate zany, joy-filled, and/or
meditative collaborations."
Nancy Beckman
Gusty Winds May Exist
"A rich and continual delight: human (systems), (humane) ticklings of the Gray Code cells (oui, Hercule) shaping sounds from texts (unexpected, the is always upon us.) Zounds."
Norman Lowrey
Drew University
Excerpts (in PDF format)
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