Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prelude: A Study in Sonority

Chapter 1: The Rockefeller Years, 1964-Spring 1968
Creating the center
Getting Their Gongs Wet
Settling In
"Can This Be Buffalo?"
"Adagio" and "Canto"
David Tudor
News For You
Excavating Riches
Composer-Performers
Renewal and International Influence
The Berkeley of the East
Diamonds and Mud
Aquarium

Chapter 2: Make It New, Fall 1968-1972
Technology Rising
Continuance
Illiacs and Oscillators
Music and Theater
A Holiday Angel
Julius Eastman
Fusion
Cornucopia
Turmoil
Early Seventies
Mad Kings and Making Do

Chapter 3: Feldman in Buffalo, Fall 1972
The Tenth Year
Closer To Home
Shakeup
The Continuous Present
June In Buffalo
Boston Harbor
Ultrasonics, Subliminal Light and Sound
A Lecture on the Weather
Late January 1977

Chapter 4: The Final Years, 1977-1980
Music of Changes
A Critical Fall
"It's Like the Love Canal"
HPSCHD and Beyond
Non-Continuance
After Image

Chapter 5: Postscript

Appendix 1: Chronology
Appendix 2: List of Interviews
Appendix 3: List of Creative Associates
Appendix 4: List of Creative Associate Graduate Fellows
Appendix 5: Selected Discography

Endnotes
Bibliography
Index