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The Darmstadt Library
Books, films, scores, recordings, recommended by tutors of the Darmstadt Summer Course
DARMSTÄDTER FERIENKURSE 2018

Every two years, the Darmstadt Summer Course is a hub for sharing music, ideas and know-how. People with different backgrounds and interests come together and we’d like to collect a littlebit of what they bring with them.
We’ve asked the tutors of the Darmstadt Summer Course 2018 which books, scores or recordings have inspired them a lot and that they would recommend from the bottom of their heart to others.

Take a look at their responses!

Antye Greie-Ripatti
Tutor Electronics Atelier

BOOKS
Silvia Federici: The Caliban and the Witch
Susan Bickford: Dissonance Democracy – Listening, Conflict and Citizenship
Julia Eckhardt: Grounds fot Possible Music – on gender, voice, language and identity
Peter McCoy: Radical Mycology

Cathy Milliken
Tutor Oboe and Composition

SCORES
Unsuk Chin: Violin concerto
George Benjamin: Written on skin
Hans Abrahamsson: Let me tell you

RECORDINGS
Group “Clocked out”: clockedout.org
Ashley Fure: The force of things: 
vimeo.com/239318115
Meredith Monk: Impermanence 
youtube.com/watch?v=ECBfveopzOs
Michael Schiefel (vocalist and composer): 
youtube.com/watch?v=HVYHXyX7988
Vashava by Enknap Dance Company: youtube.com/watch?v=piKf8j-uwBQ

BOOKS
Pablo Picasso’s Poetry
Keith Sawyer: Group Genius
Margaret S. Barrett: Collaborative creative thought and collaborative practice in music
Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons
Keith Johnstone: Impro-Improvisation and the theatre
Jean Baudrillard: The ecstasy of communication
Richard Sennett: Together and the Craftsman
Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening
R. Murray Schafer: The music of the environment
R. Murray Schafer: Tuning of the world
George Lewis: A Power stronger than itself

Christina Kubisch
Tutor Composition & Sound Art

BOOKS
The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art, edited by Marcel Cobussen, Vincent Meelberg and Barry Truax
Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle: In the Field – The Art of 
Field RECORDING
Alan Licht: Sound Art, Beyond Music, Between Categories
Angus Carlyle: Autumn Leaves
R. Murray Schafer: The Thinking Ear
Audio Culture-Readings in Modern Music, edited by ­Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner
John Cage: Empty Words
David Revill: The Roaring Silence – John Cage: A Life

Christine Chapman
Tutor Brass Academy (Horn)

BOOKS
Wise Women of the Dreamtime – Aboriginal takes of ancestral powers
, collected by K. Langloh Parker
Steven Mithen: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body
The Singing Neanderthals, Published by Weidenfels & Nicolson

Daniel Linehan
Dance Tutor

Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Timothy Morton: Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People

Donatienne 
Michel-Dansac
Voice Tutor

BOOK
Eugen Herrigel: Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschießens

CARTOONIST
Tex Avery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Avery

ARTIST
Fred Sandback: fredsandbackarchive.org

Ernesto Molinari
Clarinet Tutor

BOOKS
Hannah Arendt: Die Freiheit, frei zu sein

SCORE
György Kurtág: Signs, Games and Messages

RECORDINGS
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Pieces by Robert Schumann with Tabea Zimmermann and Hartmut Höll on Capriccio (CD 67123 – 2004)

Florian Malzacher
Curating Tutor

BOOKS
Didier Eribon: Retour a Reims
Chantal Mouffe: Podemos: In the Name of the People

Françoise Rivalland
Percussion Tutor

BOOKS
Henry David Thoreau: Une promenade en hiver (“Winter”)
Ernesto De Martino: La terre du remords
Richard Kostelanetz: Conversations avec John Cage

FILM
Paul Klee – Die Stille des Engels by Michaël Gaumnitz

MUSIC
Georges Aperghis: Hamletmashine-Oratorio
Joseph Haydn: The secular canons
Nina Simone: “I put a spell on you”, “Summertime”, 
“Mississipi Goddam”
Sona Jobarteh: Fasiya
Luigi Boccherini: La Música Nocturna della strade de ­Madrid, op. 30

Håkon Stene
Percussion Tutor

COMPOSERS & PROJECTS
Trond Reinholdtsen: The Norwegian Opra
thenorwegianopra.no/trondreinholdtsen.html
Koka Nikoladze: nikoladze.eu/creations
Simon Løffler: simonloeffler.dk
Joanna Bailie: joannabailie.com
Michael Pisaro: wandelweiser.de/michael-pisaro.html
Harry Partch / Heiner Goebbels / Musikfabrik: Delusion of the Fury

LABEL
Hubro music

RECORDINGS
The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World
Wendy Carlos: Switched on Bach
Portsmouth Sinfonia plays the popular classics

WRITING / LECTURING
Johannes Kreidler’s performance lectures
Richard Dawkins
Sam Harris
Slavoj Žižek

DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer

Heloisa Amaral
Tutor Curating and Feedback

FILM
Mauricio Kagel: Ludwig Van
George Perec: Life – An User’s Manual

SCORE
Iannis Xenakis: Pithoprakta

Joanna Bailie
Jury Kranichstein Music Prize

BOOKS
Adolfo Bioy Casares: The Invention of Morel
Michel Chion: Audio-Vision

Julia Mihály
Tutor Voice & Electronics

BOOK
Anna Schürmer: Klingende Eklats: Skandal und Neue Musik

COMIC
Liv Strömquist: Der Ursprung der Liebe

Juliana Hodkinson
Visiting Composer

BOOK
Ursula Ankjær Olsen: Third Millennium Heart (translated from the Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen)

Kirsten Reese
Composition Tutor

BOOK
Octavia E. Butler: Lilith’s Brood (Xenogenesis Trilogy)

Liza Lim
Composition Tutor

ARTICLE
Tim Ingold: “The textility of making”, in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34/2010, p. 91–102.
sed.ucsd.edu/files/2014/05/Ingold-2009-Textility-of-making.pdf

Lucia Ronchetti
Composition Tutor

SCORES
Salvatore Sciarrino: Lohengrin. Azione invisibile
Bruno Maderna: Aura

FILMS
La Rabbia by Pierpaolo Pasolini
Medea by Lars von Trier

BOOKS
Hans Blumenberg: Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer
Stefano D’Arrigo: Horcynus Orca
Willi Apel: The notation of polyphonic music 900-1600

BOOKS (MUSIC)
Olivier Messiaen: Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d’ornithologie
Agostino d’ Ippona (St. Augustine of Hippo): De Musica
Iannis Xenakis: Musiques formelles. Nouveaux principes formels de composition musicale

Marco Blaauw
Tutor Brass Academy (Trumpet)

BOOKS
Terence Hanbury White: The Once and Future King
Robert Storr: Gerhard Richter: Die Cage Bilder

RECORDING
Alim Qasimov: L’art du Mugham
Bill Dixon: The Complete remastered recordings on black Saint & Soul Note, Vol 1+2

DVD SERIES
Of beauty and consolation
Wim Kayzer interviews 20 writers, scientists, philosophers, musicians and artists: Karel Appel, György Konrád, Richard Rorty, J. M. Coetzee, Freeman Dyson, Jane Goodall, Stephen Jay Gould, Germaine Greer, Rutger Kopland, Yehudi Menuhin, Martha Nussbaum, Simon Schama, Rudi Fuchs and others

Marcus Weiss
Saxophone Tutor

BOOKS
Peter Ablinger: Annäherung: Texte, Werktexte, Textwerke
Dieter Mersch: Medientheorien zur Einführung
Dieter Mersch: Ereignis und Aura. Untersuchungen zu einer Ästhetik des Performativen
Peter Szendy: Machinations de Georges Aperghis
Richard Hudson: Stolen Time: The History of Tempo Rubato
Robin Maconey: The Way of Music
Valère Novarina: Die Rede an die Tiere

Books by Giorgio Agamben and Alain Badiou

Melvyn Poore
Tutor Brass Academy (Tuba)

BOOKS
Heinz Schilling: Martin Luther, Rebell in einer Zeit des Umbruchs
Kunst Lehren. Johannes Ittens Grundlagen der Kunstpädagogik

boesner.com/kunstportal/buchtipp/kunst-lehren-johannes-ittens-grundlagen-der-kunstpaedagogik

FILM
The Art of Flying by Jan van Ijken
janvanijken.com/FILM-projects/the-art-of-flying

Michael Maierhof
Composition Tutor

BOOKS
David Foster-Wallace: The Pale King
David Foster-Wallace: Girl with Curious Hair

Mike Svoboda
Tutor Brass Academy (Trombone)

BOOKS
Nicolas Slonymski: A Thesaurus of Scales
Leonard Bernstein: The Norton Lectures
Harry Partch: On a Genesis of Music

RECORDINGS
Maynard Ferguson: Primal Scream
Thad Jones, Mel Lewis: Central Park North
Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come

Peter Meanwell
Tutor “Talking About Music”

BOOKS
Mark Wigley: Buckminster Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the 
Age of Radio
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred

Peter Veale
Jury Kranichstein Music Prize

BOOK
Harry Partch: Genesis of a Music

Pierluigi Billone
Composition Tutor

BOOK
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Le Visible et l’Invisible

MUSIC
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Momente (Version 1965)

Rebecca Saunders
Composition Tutor

BOOK
Walter Zimmermann: Morton Feldman: Essays

RECORDING
Galina Ustwolskaya: Piano Sonatas, played by Markus 
Hinterhäuser (Col Legno)

Ryoko Akama
Tutor Electronics Atelier

BOOKS
Yoko Ono: Grapefruit: A BOOK of Instructions and Drawings
Benjamin H D Buchloh: Sarah Sze

Stefan Fricke
Tutor

BOOKS
Dieter Schnebel: MO-NO. Musik zum Lesen
Urs Peter Schneider: Konzeptuelle Musik

Stefan Prins
Composition Tutor

BOOKS
Beth Coleman: Hello Avatar! The rise of a Networked Generation
Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media
Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Susanne Kirchmayr
Curator Electronics Atelier

SCORE
Pia Palme: AX.WHO

Terre Thaemlitz
Visting Artist

WEBSITE
marxists.org and in particular:
Frederick Engels: The Origin of the Family, Private Property 
and the State
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family

Theresa Beyer
Jury Kranichstein Music Prize

BOOK
Barbara Balba Weber: Entfesselte Klassik. Grenzen öffnen mit künstlerischer Musikvermittlung

Uli Fussenegger
Double bass Tutor

BOOK
Gerhard Falkner: Apollokalypse

MUSIC
Moody Good
soundcloud.com/moodygood/sets/music-to-go-fuck-yourself-to

Wieland Hoban
Composition Tutor and Translator

BOOK
Brian Ferneyhough: Collected Writings

RECORDING
Iannis Xenakis: Chamber music for strings and piano 
with Arditti Quartet & Claude Helffer

Yaron Deutsch
Guitar Tutor

BOOKS
Roberto Bolano: 2666
W. G. Sebald: Austerlitz
George Orwell: Why I Write

POEM
Bertolt Brecht: “General: Your tank is a powerful vehicle” 
(General, dein Tank ist ein starker Wagen)