SOURCE
Source Magazine magazine was published between 1967 and 1973 by The University of California and reflected the flourishing Californian musical experimentalism of the late 1950s-early 1960s
Source: Music of the Avant-Garde
Although only The 11 issues were published, Source documented the new music practices of the period like indeterminacy, performance, graphic scores, electronic music and intermedia arts. It rejected formal concert performance and traditional music notation, embracing the new art forms such as Performance art, Sound poetry and Sound Art.
Edited by the American computer and electronic musician Larry Austin, who was president of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) , Source championed the new stars of the avant-garde like Hugh Davies, Daniel Lentz and Jerry Hunt but also veterans like Harry Partch, Lukas Foss, John Cage and Morton Feldman.
American Minimalism
Over the years, Source covered West Coast experimentalism of the 1960s such as Gordon Mumma and Robert Ashley but also the American Minimalism of Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, Earle Brown.
With the birth of Sound Art, pioneers such as Alvin Lucier, Max Neuhaus and Annea Lockwood found space within it's pages. New improvised and indeterminate music (the ONCE Group, Música Electronica Viva, Toshi Ichiyanagi) ; The Fluxus movement and performance art with Dick Higgins and Allan Kaprow.
European sound poetry with the Fylkingen affiliated artists and Bernard Heidsieck ; the British Systems music of Cornelius Cardew, Howard Skempton, Michael Parsons and Gavin Bryars.
Source also welcomed the use of advanced technology and published information on Don Buchla's newly built synthesizer, Nam June Paik's first video experiments and Lowell Cross's video/laser light shows.
Accompanying LP recordings
Several issues came with a pair of 10-inch vinyl records, a format chosen to fit with the magazine's format of nearly 11" x 14". These recordings collected sound works by artists included in the magazine with issues 4, 7/8 and 9. The two 10-inch LPs coming with issue #4 were subsidized by Columbia records, thanks to David Behrman, an American pioneer of computer music and was the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series, which included the first recording of Terry Riley's In C.
In 1966 Behrman co-founded Sonic Arts Union with fellow composers Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma.