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John Dalley (now a celebrated violinist with the Guarneri String Quartet) and Gordon Mumma,
Interlochen, Michigan, circa 1951.  

 

Gordon Mumma on Right, in prisoner's chorus, Beethoven's FIDELIO, Act I.
University of Michigan Theatre, Mid 1950s.

 

Gordon Mumma and Robert Ashley, at Ashley's section of the Coopertive Studio for Electronic Music.
Ann Arbor, MI, circa 1960.  

 

A  screen-modified group-rate advance-ticket-request, by Mary Ashley,  for the 1964 ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

left to right:
Luigi Nono, Gordon Mumma, Nuria Schoenberg Nono, Robert Ashley.
Venice, Italy, Summer 1964

 

Gordon Mumma, with double-reed horn (from the 19th Century Sarrausophone tradition), in Ann Arbor, MI, 1964.
photo by Jacqueline Leuzinger

 

David Tudor and Gordon Mumma in the recording session of MESA, at the 30th Street NYC CBS studios, in 1967

 

David Borden, Gordon Mumma, Robert Moog, David Tudor,  in Moog's synthesizer studio.
Trumansburg, NY, Spring 1968.  

 

The SONIC ARTS UNION: Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, and Robert Ashley, in an advertising photo-montage.
New York city, 1968.

 

Anthony Braxton (saxophone), Leroy Jenkins (violin),  Gordon Mumma (horn)
New York City, November 1970.

 

John Cage and Gordon Mumma, in a radio broadcast at WBAI-FM, NYC, 1970.

 

The Sonic Arts Union at Sveriges Radio.
Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, David Behrman.
Stockholm, May 4, 1971.  

 

Mumma and cybersonic horn is from a live-performance of HORNPIPE (1967) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York City,  February 19, 1972

 

Gordon Mumma, Christian Wolff, and Cornelius Cardew.
Berlin, Germany,  September 1974

 

Mako Nancarrow, Mumma, and Conlon Nancarrow.
Mexico City,  December 1975
Mako is Conlon's son.

 

John Adams and Gordon Mumma, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, following a rehearsal of Mumma's ZERO CROSSING, for chamber ensemble, commissioned and conducted by Adams, 1976 May.

 

Tom Robbins (author), and Gordon Mumma (bandoneon), in a performance of choreographer Jan McCauley's EARHEART.
Seattle, WA,  Sept 22, 1977

 

Gordon Mumma and Pauline Oliveros, playing duo bandoneons in a Santa Cruz rifle range. Mid 1980s.

 

 

Gordon Mumma 
California 1991
photo by J.M.Gleisner

 


San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, after a rehearsal of John Cage's MUSIC FOR 14. At the left is John Cage;  squatting on the floor is William Winant and Gordon Mumma.
May 7, 1992.

 


Greta Slobin (Russian culture scholar, 20th Cent.), Mark Slobin (ethnomusicologist, everywhere), Alvin Lucier (composer), and Gordon Mumma, Middletown, CN. early 1990s.

 


Lou Harrison, Gordon Mumma, and Bill Colvig, Mills College, Oakland CA.,  15 April 1999.

 


Gordon Mumma and William Winant, rehearsing Mumma's THAN PARTICLE (1985), in Winant's rehearsal room, Mills College, Oakland CA.
photo by Steed Cowart

 

 

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