Eminent scholars of experimental music present a panel celebrating the publication of The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance (Getty Publications, 2025), followed by a Q&A and performances of experimental scores by members of The Rise of the Novel.
Panelists: Greg Albers, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Emily Ruth Capper, Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, John Hicks, George E. Lewis, and Benjamin Piekut
Performers: The Rise of the Novel (Travis Laplante, Nate Wooley, more to be announced)
The Scores Project is a unique digital publication that provides a comprehensive view of the global explosion of experimental scores during the 1960s, alongside a complete edition of the groundbreaking An Anthology of Chance Operations (1963). Featuring scores by John Cage, George Brecht, Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Benjamin Patterson, Yvonne Rainer, Mieko Shiomi, David Tudor, and La Monte Young, the publication includes expert commentaries, audiovisual recordings of score performances, and a digitized archive of over 2,000 ephemera and audiovisual materials.
“Gifting us visuals of rare notations, press clippings, recordings, and photographs, The Scores Project invites the reader into the manifold encounters that characterize the aftermath of any given performance.”—Nicole Kaack, The Brooklyn Rail
“The Scores Project is an essential research tool for anyone interested in the intersection of musical notation, art, poetry, and dance from 1950 to 1975.” —Hannah B. Higgins, Professor of Art, University of Illinois Chicago, and author of Fluxus Experience (2002) and The Grid Book (2009)
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
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Julia Bryan-Wilson is a professor of art history and gender studies at Columbia University. Her most recent book is Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (Yale University Press, 2023).
Emily Ruth Capper is assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota. Her first book, Happening Pedagogy: Allan Kaprow’s Experiments in Instruction, 1948–1968, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
Michael Gallope is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. His most recent book is The Musician as Philosopher: New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978 (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
Natilee Harren is associate professor of modern and contemporary art history and theory at the University of Houston School of Art and the author of Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
John Hicks is a lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.
George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. He is the author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Benjamin Piekut is professor and chair of the Department of Music at Cornell University.
The Rise of the Novel is a new ensemble dedicated to prioritizing the spontaneity of music. The group celebrates the mixture of improvisation with composition—whether that comes from jazz or indeterminacy—preparing and performing it with the same respect and rigor normally reserved for concert hall modernism.
