This review playfully leans into the futurism of the avant-garde, it and plays up the role of science and mathematics in advanced compositional methods and electronic music. The reviewer speculates that “sooner or later perhaps shall all be able to emulate him [David Tudor]; Tin Pan Alley will flourish on the theory of numbers, and every guest will take his graph to the party.”
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| Title | “Music of the Future: Science Fiction for the Piano,” The Times (London) |
| Date | 19 December 1956 |
| Type | press clipping |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, folder 11 |
Cite
“Music of the Future: Science Fiction for the Piano,”
The Times (London), 19 December 1956. Getty
Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box
62, folder 11. In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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