New Acquisitions!

Summer vibes, new books and scores, visit our library and discover our latest acquisitions!

A selection from the new acquisitions: DESERT PLANTS – Walter Zimmermann.

Originally published in 1976, Walter Zimmermann’s book Desert Plants was reissued by MusikTexte in 2020. The book includes interviews with 23 diverse American composers, and is enriched with many original photos and scores. The new edition comes along with a CD containing the restored audio recordings of the interviews on mp3. Find Walter Zimmermann’s Desert Plants and the Desert Plants Tapes on our shelves in MATRIX, next to some other new acquisitions as: The female voice in the twentieth century by Serena Facci, John Cage’s Concert for piano and orchestra by Martin Iddon and Philip Thomas, The theatres of Sylvano Bussotti by Daniela Tortora, Wendy Carlos: a biography by Amanda Sewell, scores of Bernhard Lang, Cathy van Eck, Jan-Peter de Graaff and a CD-box Music for Merce 1952-2009 with music of among others Christian Wolf, John Cage, Morton Feldman and Pauline Oliveros.