Ida Applebroog, from Catastrophes series, 2012
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From 1975 to 1979, London improvisors published the most innovative artists and musicians of their generation in the magazine Musics. Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, John Zorn, David Toop, John Russell, The Feminist Improvising Group, Bob Cobbing, ICP, Val Wilmer, Annabel Nicholson, Han Bennink, Eddie Prévost, David Cunningham, Steve Beresford among many others were contributors.
…a blueprint for the interlinked activities we now call sound art, field recording, improv, live electronics & audio culture. it came out six times a year and ran for twenty-three gorgeous issues. the journal covered improvised and non-western music alongside performance art, reflecting the broad interests of the so-called “second generation” of London’s improvisers, and provided a convivial focus point. overlapping with London musicians’ collective (LMC), the publication first launched in Spring of 1975, with the tagline: an impromental experivisation arts magazine and a manifesto that proposed the destruction of artificial boundaries, and linked Free Jazz, the works of John Cage, and indigenous and non-European music…
All issues published of Adonis Kyrou and Robert Benayoun’s avant-garde film periodical L'Âge du cinéma, 1951-1952.
The periodical began during the same year that Cahiers du Cinema was founded, and took a counter-canonical stance against mainstream film criticism, formalism and realism. Wimmer suggests that the periodical also layed some of the foundations for the horror film.
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