Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music (1971-1990)
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description: Contact’s basic intentions – set out fully in the first issue, dated Spring 1971 – were to promote informed discussion of 20th century music in general and the music of the time in particular. The magazine was founded by Chris Villars, a philosophy student, and Keith Potter, at the time a second-year music undergraduate (both at Birmingham University). Over the years, Contact featured many of the leading protagonists in contemporary music. Amongst many others these included La Monte Young, R Murray Schafer, Philip Glass, John Cage, Brian Ferneyhough and a series of in depth studies of Electronic Music Studios in Britain (this includes an article by Hugh Davies detailing the founding of the EMS at Goldsmiths). Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music was active from 1971–1990, and was independently published by its editors. As with many independent print publications of that era, this has meant that for readers and researchers operating in a contemporary digital landscape, the richness of its resource has been all but inaccessible. In recognition of this issue, from 2016–2019 the entire journal was digitised and made available over the course of a three-year research project led by Dr James Bulley, Research Associate in the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, in collaboration with former editor and co-founder of Contact, Professor Keith Potter, with the assistance of Dr Settimio Fiorenzo Palermo and Gregory White. The project included developing best practice techniques for the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on each article of Contact (creating a searchable, accessible and machine-readable database), aggregation of digitised articles across contemporary research search engines, digital preservation to the highest global standards, and the creation of metadata, licensing and digital object identifiers for each issue and article within the archive. Funding and support for the project was provided by the Graduate School, Department of M…
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publication name: Contact: A Journal for Contemporary Music (1971-1990)
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items: Schoenberg Today: the Views of some Contemporary Composers
items: Review of 1974/02/02 Concert at Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Music Digest: The Music of Edgard Varèse. Saar Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Zender, Stephen Roberts (bass)
items: https://ojs.gold.ac.uk/index.php/contactjournal/article/view/956
items: A Constant State of Surprise: Gerald Barry and The Intelligence Park
items: The Music of Edgard Varèse
items: The 1988 Huddersfield Festival
items: Orchestration for the 20th-Century Musician
items: New Music-Theatre in Stuttgart
items: Darmstadt 1988
items: Superformula v. the Inner Ear
items: Chris Newman: A Self Portrait
items: Towards the Spiritual — The Electroacoustic Music of Jonathan Harvey
items: A Tale Told
items: Kagel at the Almeida
items: Lectures on Anarchy: John Cage at Wesleyan
items: Electro-Acoustic Music: Towards the Fifth Decade
items: High and Dry on the Beach
items: Controversies Incorporated: Complexity, Capitulationism, and the Language of Criticism
items: The Hespos Phenomenon: A Performer’s Point of View
items: Improvised Music: Some Answers to Some Questions
items: Loops, Overtones and Erhard Grosskopf
items: Editorial
items: A Berlin Diary
items: Musica Nova 1987
items: Gaudeamus Music Week 1987
items: Zagreb Music Biennale 1987
items: Boulez and the Modern Concept
items: Extending Singers
items: Controversies Incorporated: Accepting Androgyny; Women Composers Today: A Personal View; View from the Industrial North; Performance, Notation, Time
items: Four Facets of The New Complexity

Schoenberg Today: the Views of some Contemporary Composers
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subject: Articles
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creator: Geoffrey Burgon
creator: Jonathan Harvey
creator: John Joubert
creator: Virgil Thomson
creator: Stuart Ward
creator: Hugh Wood
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1974-09-01
publication date: 1974-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i9.943

Review of 1974/02/02 Concert at Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Music Digest: The Music of Edgard Varèse. Saar Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Zender, Stephen Roberts (bass)
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Denis Smalley
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 2019-09-16
publication date: 2019-09-16
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i8.938

https://ojs.gold.ac.uk/index.php/contactjournal/article/view/956
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 2019-09-16
publication date: 2019-09-16
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i10.956

A Constant State of Surprise: Gerald Barry and The Intelligence Park
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Kevin Volans
creator: Hilary Bracefield
rights: Copyright (c) 1987 Kevin Volans https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 1987-09-01
publication date: 1987-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i31.1278

The Music of Edgard Varèse
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: David Cox
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1971-04-01
publication date: 1971-04-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i1.474

The 1988 Huddersfield Festival
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Christopher Fox
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1989-09-01
publication date: 1989-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i34.1309

Orchestration for the 20th-Century Musician
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description: -
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Stephen Montague
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 2019-09-19
publication date: 2019-09-19
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i27.1240

New Music-Theatre in Stuttgart
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: David Kosviner
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1989-09-01
publication date: 1989-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i34.1308

Darmstadt 1988
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Keith Potter
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1989-09-01
publication date: 1989-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i34.1307

Superformula v. the Inner Ear
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Julian Anderson
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1989-09-01
publication date: 1989-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i34.1306

Chris Newman: A Self Portrait
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Chris Newman
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1989-09-01
publication date: 1989-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i34.1305

Towards the Spiritual — The Electroacoustic Music of Jonathan Harvey
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Pamela Smith
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1989-09-01
publication date: 1989-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i34.1304

A Tale Told
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Andrew Hugill Thomson
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1989-09-01
publication date: 1989-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i34.1303

Kagel at the Almeida
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Michael Blake
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-09-01
publication date: 1988-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i33.1302

Lectures on Anarchy: John Cage at Wesleyan
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: R. Wood Massi
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-09-01
publication date: 1988-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i33.1301

Electro-Acoustic Music: Towards the Fifth Decade
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Steve Ingham
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-09-01
publication date: 1988-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i33.1300

High and Dry on the Beach
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Michael Parkin
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-09-01
publication date: 1988-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i33.1299

Controversies Incorporated: Complexity, Capitulationism, and the Language of Criticism
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Arnold Whittall
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i33.1298

The Hespos Phenomenon: A Performer’s Point of View
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: David Smeyers
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-09-01
publication date: 1988-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i33.1297

Improvised Music: Some Answers to Some Questions
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Christopher F Atton
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-09-01
publication date: 1988-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i33.1296

Loops, Overtones and Erhard Grosskopf
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Christopher Fox
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-09-01
publication date: 1988-09-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i33.1295

Editorial
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Hilary Bracefield
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i33.1294

A Berlin Diary
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Christopher Fox
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i32.1291

Musica Nova 1987
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Keith Potter
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i32.1290

Gaudeamus Music Week 1987
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Hilary Bracefield
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i32.1289

Zagreb Music Biennale 1987
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Keith Potter
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i32.1288

Boulez and the Modern Concept
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Susan Bradshaw
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i32.1287

Extending Singers
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Linda Hirst
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i32.1286

Controversies Incorporated: Accepting Androgyny; Women Composers Today: A Personal View; View from the Industrial North; Performance, Notation, Time
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subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Diana Burrell
creator: Rhian Samuel
creator: Margaret Lucy Wilkins
creator: Trevor Wishart
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i32.1285

Four Facets of The New Complexity
type: item
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Richard Toop
rights: Copyright (c)
date: 1988-03-01
publication date: 1988-03-01
doi: 10.25602/GOLD.cj.v0i32.1284