Benjamin Piekut

In <i>Experimental Otherwise</i>, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by «experimental» in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time—New York City, 1964—Piekut examines five disparate events: the New York Philharmonic’s disastrous performance of John Cage’s <i>Atlas Eclipticalis</i>; Henry Flynt’s demonstrations against the downtown avant-garde; Charlotte Moorman’s Avant Garde Festival; the founding of the Jazz Composers Guild; and the...