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RESCHEDULED! I’ll be doing a talk about Alvin Lucier’s early work based on archival research done at the NYPL-FPA, drawing from my chapter on Lucier in The Composer’s Black Box. Then, Daniel Fishkin and Victoria Keddie will perform an early archival compositional sketch! Super excited for this one! Thanks to Marcia Bassett for hosting!

Sunday, May 3, 2pm
Sunview Acropolis
257 Nassau Ave

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Some highlights from the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt collection— looking forward to the Buchla exhibition this fall!

Join us next Friday, March 27th at 6pm for the launch of @ted_gordon ’s new book, The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America (University of California Press, 2025), for a reading and performance with a Buchla modular electronic music system.

RSVP in bio!

Presented in Partnership with @musicapracticaelettronicaviva

Join us next Friday, March 27th at 6pm for the launch of @ted_gordon ’s new book, The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America (University of California Press, 2025), for a reading and performance with a Buchla modular electronic music system.

RSVP in bio!

Presented in Partnership with @musicapracticaelettronicaviva

Join us next Friday, March 27th at 6pm for the launch of @ted_gordon ’s new book, The Composer's Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America (University of California Press, 2025), for a reading and performance with a Buchla modular electronic music system.

RSVP in bio!

Presented in Partnership with @musicapracticaelettronicaviva

The Composer’s Black Box
ON TOUR!

March 26, 8pm
Baltimore, MD
Red Room/Normals @highzerofoundation @normals_books_records
Book Talk & Performance w/ CK Barlow, Alex Wu, Sam Pluta, Sky Macklay, Sarah Parker

March 27, 6pm
Philadelphia, PA
ULISES
@ulisesbooks
Book Talk & Performance

See you there!

(Graphic adapted from Stafford Beer, Diagnosing the System for Organizations, 1985)

Thank you so much to Ezra Teboul@youcanlivethereforever for this incredibly generous review of The Composer’s Black Box in Leonardo @leonardoisast !

Thank you so much to Ezra Teboul@youcanlivethereforever for this incredibly generous review of The Composer’s Black Box in Leonardo @leonardoisast !

Today’s Lucier concert has been postponed due to the blizzard! Future date TBA!

Friday the 20th! I’ll be doing an STS talk at Tufts. Open to the public, Boston people get in touch if you want to come!

@ted_gordon (buchla easel) & @lilyruskroda (buchla easel) + @keithfullertonwhitman (modular synthesizer) + @takealukearound (bass, amp) 2/4/26 at the Mixology fest @roulette_intermedium

Watch the archive 👉 https://www.youtube.com/live/ig9nXr0C6gs

Hear more Ted & Marcia 👉 https://ted-gordon.net/#collaborations-with-marcia-bassett

Hear more Keith 👉 https://keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com

Hear more Luke 👉 https://lukestewart.bandcamp.com

#tedgordon #marciabassett #keithfullertonwhitman #lukestewart

The Composer’s Black Box
February Events

Feb 04: Panel/Concert @ Roulette
w/Marcia Bassett, Keith Fullerton Whitman,
Luke Stewart

Feb 12: Comparing Domains of Improvisation Workshop
@ Columbia Computer Music Center

Feb 20: Talk @ Tufts University, STS Lunch Seminar,
Music Dept

Feb 22: Lecture/Recital: Early Alvin Lucier Sketches
@ Sunview Luncheonette
w/Victoria Keddie and Daniel Fishkin

Feb 25: Talk @ NYU Tandon, TCS

Feb 27: Talk @ CUNY Graduate Center, Music
Musicology Bites

Most events public— more info in bio!

next week on night 1 of mixology festival (02.4-7) catch a performance and panel/Q+A surrounding @ted_gordon’s new book The Composer’s Black Box (@uc_press), which uses five historical case studies—Morton Subotnick, Donald Buchla, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, and Sun Ra—to examine how human musicians and their electronic musical instruments negotiate agency, creativity, and selfhood through cybernetic pathways of control. ted is joined by @lilyruskroda, @keithfullertonwhitman, and @takealukearound. tickets in bio!

video of ted gordon and marcia bassett playing buchla music easels at mixology 2022

SO EXCITED for this book event for The Composer’s Black Box at @roulette_intermedium on February 4th!

I’ll be joined by Marcia Bassett (@lilyruskroda), Keith Fullerton Whitman (@keithfullertonwhitman) and Luke Stewart (@takealukearound) for an evening of discussion and performance, with plenty of time for Q&A. I’ll have copies of the book available, too.

Doubly honored to be kicking off Roulette’s annual Mixology Festival, which this year will also feature Tommy Martinez @ogbabydiesal, Sydney Spann @ssspann, Nicolas Collins, Weston Olencki @wolencki, and an evening curated by D.O.T. Audio Arts @dot.audioarts !

Pre-sale tickets are available! Link in bio!

Honored to have been interviewed by Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly, legendary musician and current member of @negativlandland ) for the long-running @kpfaradio show Over the Edge! In signature style, our discussion is woven through a three-hour collage of music, some of which was made by the main players in The Composer’s Black Box, and all of which is connected to the topics & threads Jon traced through our discussion. I couldn’t have asked for a more generous and generative interlocutor! Link in Bio 📻