...As John Cage and the academic serialists pursued their apparently contradictory aesthetics on the East Coast, another compositional wave was taking shape on the edge of the Pacific. Known as minimalism, it was led by La Monte Young, the only composer in the history of Western music who has so...

... is essentially communal. John Cage seemed to be indifferent to geography, a reflection of his own disassociation from community. Cage's anticommunalism is entirely consistent with his purpose of non-intention, and his position is curiously close to some aspects of minimalism. La Monte Young also disdained...

...This chapter discusses Yvonne Rainer's movement from minimalism to something else, as can be gathered from Lives of Performers. The film begins with rehearsal footage of the dance Walk, She Said, which gives every appearance of being a minimalist exercise devoted...

... to Karlheinz Stockhausen's notion of form minimalism, in both music and visual art. The chapter also contends that Hauer's aesthetic is related to categories of minimalism that include the avoidance of aleatoricism, the emphasis on surface, and the concern with disposition rather than composition. Dodecaphony...

.... Others sought to eliminate the will and emotion of the composer. Musical developments took three very different directions after the war: serialism, aleatoric experimentalism, and minimalism. The serialists, led by Pierre Boulez, adopted and extended Schoenberg's concept of the tone row to every musical...

... compromise fallback when consensus unreachable polarization Sri Lanka Kenya Letowska Ewa Africa legitimacy skepticism failed processes minimalism spoilers “sufficient consensus” There is an important tradeoff between inclusion and consensus. By inclusion I do not mean direct participation...