Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Musical Examples -- Tables -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Preamble. Gordon Mumma: A Short Biography -- Part I. Unmarked Interchange: Ann Arbor and the ONCE Years (1960-66) -- 1. Music's Avant-Garde: What's New? -- 2. Manifestations: Light and Sound: Milton Cohen's Space Theatre -- 3. An Electronic Music Studio for the Independent Composer -- 4. The ONCE Festival and How It Happened -- 5. The ONCE Group's Unmarked Interchange and Night Train -- Part II. Cybersonics and the Sonic Arts (1966-75) -- 6. Creative Aspects of Live-Performance Electronic Music Technology -- 7. Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer 1965 -- 8. Two Cybersonic Works: Horn and Hornpipe -- 9. Music in America 1970: Points of View -- 10. A Brief Introduction to the Sound-Modifier Console and Sun(flower) Burst -- 11. What We Did Last Summer: A Commentary on ICES 1972 -- 12. Two Decades of Live-Electronic Music, 1950-70 -- 13, Witchcraft, Cybersonics, and Folkloric Virtuosity -- Part III. In the Cunningham Circle -- 14. A Day on the Road with the Cunningham Dance Company -- 15. From Where the Circus Went -- 16. Robert Rauschenberg in the Creative Fields of the Cunningham Dance Company -- 17. With Tudor the Organist -- 18. David Tudor the Composer along the Path to Rainforest -- Part IV. Not Wanting to Say Anything about John (Cage) -- 19. Cage as Performer -- 20. John Cage, Electronic Technology, and Live-Electronic Music -- 21. Twenty-Five Minutes with John Cage -- Part V. Latin America -- 22. Innovation in Latin American Electro-Acoustical Music -- 23. Briefly about Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano -- 24. Uruguayan Diary: The Cuarto Curso Latinoamericano de Música Contemporánea, Cerro del Toro -- Part VI. An American Gallery -- 25. Nelson Mix for Gordon Mumma.

26. Gordon Mumma's Stovepipe for Richard Nelson -- 27. Good Times Up on the Farm -- 28. Merce and Ludwig -- 29. On the Ives Railroad -- 30. A Visit to Mount Olympus with David Tudor -- 31. On George Cacioppo -- 32. Earle's Worlds -- Three Sonic Arts Union Sketches -- 33. Speaking Robert Ashley -- 34. Crossings with David Behrman -- 35. Becoming Alvin Lucier -- 36. Working with Pauline Oliveros -- Part VII. Mumma on Mumma -- 37. Notes on My Creative Procedures -- Appendix: Selective List of Gordon Mumma's Musical Compositions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.