Tag: Arthur Russell

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The vault might seem to connote a sense of authority, visions of round doors, time locks and bank currency or rows of booklets and stacks of boxes whose contents have been carefully packed away. Yet musically the prising open of a vault can prove a cacophonous and contentious affair. What should be scrapped or saved for posterity, who gets...

At the confluence of the downtown scene inaugurated in the loft of a Chambers Street apartment by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young, which from its roots in sustained tones and minimalist repetition came to encompass everything from the shifting phrases of Steve Reich and Philip Glass to the performance art of Laurie Anderson and no wave abrasions of...