Richard Maxfield

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Pastoral Symphony 04:03 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterf 06:02 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies Encountered Over the Ocean) 06:02 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterfiles Encountered Over the Ocean) 06:02 Tools
Night Music 09:06 Tools
Amazing Grace 03:26 Tools
Bacchanale 08:14 Tools
Richard Maxfield - Night Music 06:02 Tools
Piano Concert for David Tudor 12:29 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies) 06:02 Tools
11 - Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies...) 00:00 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies...) 21:55 Tools
Maxfield: Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterfiles Encountered Over The Ocean) 06:02 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies...), 1959 06:02 Tools
Sine Music 00:00 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean) - Richard Maxfield 06:02 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterfiles Encountered Over The Ocean), 1959 06:02 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies Encountered Over the Ocean) [#] 06:02 Tools
For Sonny Wilson 02:27 Tools
Structures 05:17 Tools
Sine music - A swarm of butterflies encountered over the ocean 06:02 Tools
Variations for String Quartet 04:19 Tools
Fermentation 08:58 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies...) (1959) 06:02 Tools
Cough Music 05:54 Tools
Perspectives II for Lamonte Young 09:22 Tools
Sine Music (A swarm of butterflies enc 06:02 Tools
Pastoral Symphony (Maxfield, 1960) 04:04 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean) (1959) 04:04 Tools
Amazing Grace (Maxfield, 1960) 04:04 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterfiles Encountered over the Ocean) (1959) 06:02 Tools
Bacchanale (1963) 08:14 Tools
Piano Concert for David Tudor (Maxfield, 1961) 12:29 Tools
Beyond The Sunset 02:48 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm Butterflies Encountered The Ocean) 02:48 Tools
Piano Sonata #2 10:06 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm Butterfli 00:00 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies) (1959) 00:00 Tools
Crying Out Loud 00:00 Tools
Coeur D'Orr (Budd, 1969) 02:47 Tools
My Cathedral 02:47 Tools
13 Piano Sonata #2 02:47 Tools
Piano Concert "For David Tudor" 12:29 Tools
The Oak Of The Golden Dreams (Budd, 1970) 02:47 Tools
Bacchanale (Maxfield, 1963) 02:47 Tools
Amazing Grace (1960) 12:29 Tools
Sine Music [A Swarm Of Butterflies...] 12:29 Tools
The Oak Of The Golden Dreams 12:29 Tools
Richard Maxfield - Bacchanale 12:29 Tools
Richard Maxfield / Bacchanale 12:29 Tools
You 12:29 Tools
Coeur D'Orr 12:29 Tools
Steps 12:29 Tools
Richard Maxfield / Pastoral Symphony 12:29 Tools
One By One 12:29 Tools
The One You Love (Pulse) 12:29 Tools
Bound 12:29 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterflies), 1959 12:29 Tools
Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean) - Richard Maxfiel 12:29 Tools
Go On 12:29 Tools
Lucky One 12:29 Tools
Harold Budd / Coeur D'orr 04:01 Tools
Richard Maxfield / Piano Concert for David Tudor 04:01 Tools
Pulse 12:29 Tools
Pastoral Symphony - Richard Maxfield 04:01 Tools
Pastoral Symphony (1980) 04:01 Tools
Richard Maxfield - Sine Music (A Swarm of Butterflies...), 1959 04:01 Tools
03 interview 1960 pt.3 04:01 Tools
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Richard Maxfield (February 2, 1927 – June 27, 1969) was a composer of instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic music. Born in Seattle, he most likely taught the first University-level course in electronic music in America at the New School for Social Research. As a student at Berkeley and in Europe in the 1950's, he composed instrumental scores in a Neo-Classical style and then adopting 12-tone techniques, eventually studying at Princeton University with Milton Babbitt. Encounters with contemporary European innovations, the music of John Cage, and techniques for composing with magnetic tape would however prove decisive in the development of his mature compositions. Among his innovations with tape music were the simultaneous performance of improvised instrumental solos with tapes based upon samples of the same soloist, re-editing of tapes before each public performance so that the pieces were not fixed in a single form, and the use of the erase head of the tape machine as a sound source. He was also an active Fluxus participant and a friend of La Monte Young. Young now maintains the archive of Maxfield's works. In 1960, he, along with Young, co-curated the early Fluxus concerts at Yoko Ono's loft: the first Downtown concerts. Maxfield made a number of mesmerizing, though gritty, electronic minimalist pieces, a few of which have made it to commercial recording. Maxfield had a long history of psychoactive drug use and, in a drug-induced state, ended his life by jumping out of a window on June 7, 1969 at the age of 42. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.