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History of Mills College

Archives & History
CCM’s archives include an extensive collection of recordings made at Mills and the San Francisco Tape Music Center. These rare recordings of influential works and interviews from an earlier era of electronic music represent a valuable piece of musical history. We are currently transferring many of these recordings to digital formats to improve their longevity and usability. The archives also contain a large collection of technical journals, periodicals, and books.

«Thirty Years of Non-Stop Flight: A Brief History of the Center for Contemporary Music»
David W. Bernstein
For more than three decades, the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) has played a leading role in the development of new music. CCM’s prehistory dates back to the early 1960s, a time when composers in the United States increasingly recognized the enormous potential of electronic music. In the 1950s, this new and exciting musical resource had captured […]

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Setting CCM
Multimedia, video, electronic music, and improvisation

fixed ←→ unfixed
Kontrolle, Kontrollierbarkeit, oder schlicht der Kontrolle zugänglich ←→ Impro
Prefixed, composed ←→ spontaneous, instant composing
Programming ←→ interaction with program

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