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- Language
- Eng
- Creator
- Corner, Philip.
- Volume
- 0.1 cubic meter
- Citation
- Philip Corner Collection. Nam June Paik Art Center Archives.
- Restriction
- This collection is unrestricted. Requests for permission to publish materials from this collection should be discussed with the Archivist. Materials in this collection may be protected under copyright.
- Arrangement
- Chronologically arranged.
- Scope
- The Philip Corner collection spans the year 1965-2010 and consists of texts, score, and audio file that Philip Corner (Corner) wrote and held. Included audio files are a conversation among Corner, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, and Dick Higgins at The Kitchen in 1977; and a performance done by Philip at PAM Music Festival in Seoul in 1983. Texts regarding Fluxus were written and collected by Corner are all photocopies but signed by Corner himself. Scores, production notes, and performance objects from a concert, Nam June Paik Homage Concert in Seoul, in 2009, are included in the collection. Highlights of the collection are audio files and score written by Corner himself.
- Abstract
- Born in USA in 1933, Philip Corner (Corner) studied piano and composition at City College of New York and earned B.A. in 1955. Corner studied analysis at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris from 1955 to 1957, and got back to New York, earning M.A. from Columbia University in 1959. While doing military service in South Korea, Corner, interested in calligraphy, studied calligraphy in South Korea. After back in New York, Corner has actively engaged in radical art movement including Fluxus in the 1960s. Corner served as a resident composer and musician to Judson Dance Theater from 1962 to 1964. With Malcolm Goldstein and James Tenny, Corner co-found Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble in 1963. Corner also co-found Sounds Out of Silent Spaces, an ensemble for music and ritual, in 1972, as well as Gamelan Son of Lion in 1976, and played with ensembles and experimental music groups. Other than music activities, Corner participated in various visual art exhibitions in Americas, Asia, Europe. Corner taught analysis of contemporary music and experimental composition at The New School in New York from 1967 to 1970, and contemporary music and music theory at The Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey from 1972 to 1992. Corner has lived in Italy since 1992. Also, Corner used his signature as Gwan-Pok, Korean pseudonym, “contemplating waterfall,” occasionally.
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