Playing It By Ear: Improvised Music Livestreaming During COVID-19 by Sugarman, Michael Philip

“…Focusing on a period ranging roughly from the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns to the advent of the racial justice uprisings following George Floyd’s murder by the hands of police, this study shows how musicians, organizers, and audiences congregating in jazz, experimental music, and DJ scenes created a widespread, dispersed livestreaming infrastructure that became, at once, an artistic outlet, a community gathering place, and a formidable fundraising mechanism. …”
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Resonant Bodies: Pauline Oliveros, David Tudor, and Music Mediated, 1950–1980 by Downey, Walker P.

“…In this project, I follow the intertwined trajectories of Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) and David Tudor (1926–1996) to understand how the contemporary genre of “sound art” evolved out of experimental music in the postwar United States. Substantially expanding the scope of Oliveros and Tudor’s legacies, long understood in purely music-historical terms, I argue that their engagements with electronic media—including magnetic tape, do-it-yourself circuitry, and biomedical devices—dramatically shaped their approaches to composition, performance, and listening in the Sixties and Seventies, yielding spatialized and participatory relationships to sound that sat uncomfortably within music’s definitional limits. …”
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