Various – Music For Merce 1952-2009

Label: New World Records – 80712-2
Format: 10 x CD, Compilation
Box Set
Country: US
Released: Dec 2010
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Style: Musique Concrète, Contemporary, Experimental, Post-Modern

10 CD boxset celebrating the late American collaborator and serial collaborator Merce Cunningham.  Insane who's who of experimental / avant-garde music line up, with booklet.  (NM)

Tracklist
1-1    Christian Wolff–    For Magnetic Tape [Pt. 1 Of 4]    5:24
1-2    Christian Wolff–    For Piano I 5:19
1-3    John Cage–    Music For Piano 1-20 16:13
1-4    Earle Brown–    Indices [Excerpt] 20:51
1-5    Bo Nilsson–    Quantitäten 12:31
2-1    Morton Feldman–    Ixion 20:21
2-2    John Cage–    Variation V [Excerpt] 13:41
2-3    Gordon Mumma–    Mesa 19:38
2-4    Toshi Ichiyanagi–    Activities For Orchestra 24:09
3-1    David Behrman–    …For Nearly An Hour… [Excerpt] 3:23
3-2    Pauline Oliveros–    In Memoriam: Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer [Excerpt] 9:44
3-3    Christian Wolff–    For 1, 2, Or 3 People [Excerpt] 12:07
3-4    Christian Wolff–    Burdocks [Excerpt] 16:59
3-5    John Cage, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor–    52/3 [Excerpt] 16:39
3-6    Gordon Mumma–    Telepos 18:27
4-1    David Tudor–    Toneburst 17:45
4-2    Takehisa Kosugi–    S.E. Wave/E.W. Song [Excerpt] 13:03
4-3    Maryanne Amacher–    Remainder [Excerpt]    14:55
4-4    Jon Gibson (2)–    Equal Distribution [Excerpt] 12:14
4-5    John Cage–    Inlets [Excerpt] 10:17
5-1    David Tudor–    Weatherings [Excerpt] 14:54
5-2    Yasunao Tone–    Geography And Music [Excerpt] 21:18
5-3    David Tudor–    Phonemes [Excerpt] 14:00
5-4    David Tudor–    Sextet For Seven 18:15
6-1    Takehisa Kosugi–    Spacings 23:52
6-2    John King (6)–    Gliss In Sighs 16:19
6-3    John Cage–    Voiceless Essay [Excerpt]    10:58
6-4    David Tudor–    Webwork [Excerpt] 10:46
6-5    Michael Pugliese–    Peace Talks [Excerpt] 11:44
7-1    Takehisa Kosugi–    Spectra 20:29
7-2    John Cage–    Sculptures Musicales [Excerpt] 12:14
7-3    David Tudor–    Virtual Focus [Excerpt] 15:15
7-4    John Cage–    Four3 [Excerpt] 15:24
7-5    David Tudor–    Neural Network Plus [Excerpt] 13:28
8-1    John King (6)–    Blues '99 [Excerpt] 19:10
8-2    Stuart Dempster–    Underground Overlays [Excerpt] 15:22
8-3    John Cage–    Four⁶ [Excerpt] 11:17
8-4    Takehisa Kosugi–    Wave Code A-Z [Excerpt] 14:42
8-5    Christian Wolff–    Or 4 People [Excerpt] 6:16
9-1    John Cage–    108 And One8 [Excerpt] 14:18
9-2    John King (6)–    Longtermparking [Excerpt] 15:31
9-3    David Behrman–    Long Throw [Excerpt] 18:25
9-4    Annea Lockwood–    Jitterbug [Excerpt] 20:19
10-1    David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi–    Event—February 16, 1993, Red Wing, Minnesota 5:58
10-2    David Behrman, Fast Forward (3), Takehisa Kosugi–    Event—September 14, 1996, Annemasse, France 5:53
10-3    David Behrman, Steve Lacy, Takehisa Kosugi–    Event—June 5, 1997, Frankfurt 7:30
10-4    Jim O'Rourke, Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Marclay–    Event—September 12, 1998, Minneapolis 5:22
10-5    James Woodrow, Takehisa Kosugi–    Event—September 29, 2002, Oslo 4:12
10-6    Christian Wolff, Takehisa Kosugi–    Event—October 30, 2002, Munich 6:51
10-7    David Behrman, John King (6), Ikue Mori–    Event—December 14, 2004, New York City 3:54
10-8    Ikue Mori, Christian Wolff, Marina Rosenfeld–    Event—December 15, 2004, New York City 6:56
10-9    John King (6), George Lewis–    Event—December 18, 2004, New York City 6:35
10-10    Robin Rimbaud, Philip Selway*, John King (6)–    Event—June 14, 2005, London 5:21
10-11    John King (6), John Paul Jones, Stephen Montague–    Event—June 17, 2005, London 8:44
10-12    David Behrman, John King (6), Christian Wolff–    Event—June 23, 2007, New Canaan, Connecticut 3:09
10-13    Brenda Hutchinson, Ikue Mori, Robyn Schulkowsky, Christian Wolff–    Event—June 22, 2009, Beacon, New York 5:17