Sonic Arts Union: Music with Roots in the Aether–Gordon Mumma
Music with Roots in the Aether
Music with Roots in the Aether is a seven-part series of video
portraits of notable American composers, in interviews staged as “landscapes” and in performance. Sonic Arts Union Retrospective features the segments on David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, and Alvin Lucier, engaging the composers in friendly and insightful conversations and showing performances of their work.
Gordon Mumma is interviewed on a football field (after a brief bit of bike repair), followed by a performance of Some Voltage Drop: Simulcast, Schoolwork, Telepos/Foxbat.
dir. Robert Ashley and Philip Makanna, US, 1983, video, 116 mins, color
Sonic Arts Union Retrospective has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.
