ABOUT TRANSFORMATIONS by Henry Flynt

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140 x 236mm, 123 pages, Colour printing, Perfect bound, Hardback, Edition of 500, 2024 I have chosen, in this study, to go deeply into my 1961 Transformations, to note the guises i n which it appeared, to identify its issues and to sort them out. I will not rush toward an explanatory description of the piece as it is found in An Anthology (Monte Young, ed. La Monte Young and Jackson Mac Low, New York, 1963).I prefer to establish its context and to explore correlative issues. I want to explore fully how Transformations is positioned: .i as a diversion from absurdist computationalist music.ii as a diversion from the derivations of exact science.iii as a cognitive nihilist object-lesson to exact science regarding derivations Published by Show more