Spencer Gerhardt: Ticking Stripe vinyl record

Spencer Gerhardt: Ticking Stripe vinyl recordNoted composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt presents Ticking Stripe, a groundbreaking collection of essays linking notions of continuity and construction across the boundaries of math, art, music and philosophy. Gerhardt offers new, and deeply informed interpretations of the 1960s New York avant garde, viewed through the lens of trailblazing artists such as La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Catherine Christer Hennix, Henry Flynt and Tony Conrad.

Willingham’s interpretation was written for any arrangement of wind and percussion

and A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth

Hunt’s contribution to the album

and the closing of Thresholds of Perception

their debut LP

South Carolina

and was inspired to attempt this technique himself

Pink ink on navy blue shirt

— Canada Choate

by Alan Licht

and finds the artist reflecting on recent work with the collective Marginal Consort as well as his foundational experiences playing with two other titans of Japanese experimentalism

Like Hunt’s composition “Lattice