Conlon Nancarrow - Archive
 

Submissions of photographs, interviews, reviews, papers, articles, etc. are welcome. We will let you know the URL for accepted material after your submission is entered into the archive, and suggest that you then make a Creative Commons license attributed to that URL, so that other people will clearly know what use they may make of the material.


Documents

  1. Trimpin records of timings, scores, roll condition, etc. Studies 1-40b, 41a -Blues, conversion from Ampico dynamic punches to MIDI velocities.


Interviews

  1. Conversation between Trimpin and Robert Willey (June 16, 2011). Topics: How to play Nancarrow MIDI files; Nancarrow’s interest in time; Information overload in Nancarrow’s music; Nancarrow’s process of composing; Trimpin’s machine to scan rolls; Trimpin’s Laptop Percussion Sextet.


Biographies

  1. Timeline - Robert Willey, based on information from Jürgen Hocker, Kyle Gann, and others.

  2. Hocker, Jürgen, Encounters with Nancarrow. Translated by Steven Lindberg. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012. [ expanded table of contents, list of figures and photographs ]


Audio

  1. Audio clips and photos, collected by James Greeson.


Video

  1. Trimpin discussing editing MIDI data scanned from Nancarrow's rolls with Robert Willey.


Photos




©2011 Robert Willey