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27-517: Bunger , Buenger , or Bünger may refer to: People [ edit ] Richard Bunger Evans (born 1942), American composer and pianist; also known as Richard Bunger Harold Bunger (1896–1941), American chemist and researcher Stan Bunger (born 1956), American broadcast journalist Christian Heinrich Bünger (1782–1842), German surgeon and anatomist Walter L. Buenger (born 1951), American historian Other [ edit ] Bunger Hills ,

54-474: A jazz pianist . In 1970 he accepted a professorship at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). Here he founded and directed the Electronic Music & Recording Program (EM&R), an interdisciplinary degree program between the departments of music, physics, and media. As the first of its type, the program became a prototype for many such programs subsequently offered across the country. Evans

81-405: A percussion ensemble, but the hall where Fort’s dance was to be staged had no room for a percussion group. The only instrument available was a single grand piano. After some consideration, Cage said that he realized it was possible "to place in the hands of a single pianist the equivalent of an entire percussion orchestra ... With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on

108-707: A B.Mus. in 1964. Evans continued at the University of Illinois and earned a master's degree in music in 1966. He studied further at the University of Kentucky . During his post-graduate studies, he taught at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina . One of his students in North Carolina was composer Betty Rose Wishart . In 1968 Evans accepted a position at Oberlin Conservatory to teach music theory . A year later, Evans moved to Los Angeles, California to work as

135-635: A coastal range on the Knox Coast in Wilkes Land in Antarctica Bunger, alternate name for firecracker Bunger, a fictional creature found in Bugsnax See also [ edit ] Bung (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bunger . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

162-455: A complete album of prepared piano pieces Prepared Piano: The First 40 Years before 1983 when illness forced him to leave the field of music. In 1991, he returned to music, but in more traditional genres such as musical theatre, opera and oratorio rather than in avant garde styles. From 1991, Evans concentrated on composing music in a wide variety of popular genres, especially art songs, choral music, opera, oratorio and musical theatre. For

189-745: A small grand piano with built-in speakers, magnetic guitar pickups, PZMs , and prepared piano strings. It was built as part of a graduate thesis project at California State University Dominguez Hills by Bob Fenger (1983), a student of Richard Bunger (author of the Well Prepared Piano ). Speakers are built into the bottom of the instrument, redirecting its own amplified sound back onto the sounding board, with strings and magnetic pickups creating an amplitude intensity loop, which in turn drives and vibrates suspended kinetic oscillators (assemblages of vibration sensitive materials). Secondary control parameters allow extraction of vibration and sound phenomena from

216-654: The Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48) is that each key of the piano has its own characteristic timbre, and that the original pitch of the string will not necessarily be recognizable. Further variety is available with use of the una corda pedal . Ferrante & Teicher between 1950 and 1980 used partially prepared pianos for some of their tunes in their albums. Other musicians, such as Denman Maroney use prepared piano for performances, whereas Cor Fuhler and Roger Miller have developed their own ways of using prepared piano in their musical albums. Additionally, notable contributors to

243-555: The 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, California , directed by Nancy Prebilich. Evans’ other musicals as composer include The Playboy of Balyduff, An Irish Musical Comedy , with lyrics by Kate Hancock and book by Hancock and Evans, based on the 1907 Irish comedy by John Millington Synge ; MIDLIFE! The Users’ Guide , a musical review with lyrics by Frank Evans and additional lyrics by R. Evans; and "The Golden Touch, A Family Musical," with book and lyrics by Maryrose Wood, commissioned by

270-401: The 1970s and early 1980s, exclusively performing and promoting music by 20th century American composers, from Charles Ives to Cage and beyond, always including lectures on the physical well-being of the piano to protect against potentially harmful avant garde performance techniques. In 1973, Evans devised a way for pianists to hold their music while performing pieces that require the removal of

297-622: The 1991 Grove Play entitled Tyburn Fair , Evans worked with a libretto from Bohemian Donald L. Winks to compose the oratorio, performed in July at the Bohemian Grove . Evans wrote the music for his next Grove Play in 2007 to a libretto by Mark Cleary: Leprechaun . In May–June 1994, Evans was the musical director for A New York Romance , a one-woman performance piece set in New York City , sung and acted by Mary Setrakian . In 2000, Evans released

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324-501: The 2nd pianist to insert pieces of paper between the strings Maurice Ravel 's L'enfant et les sortilèges (1920-1925) calls for Luthéal , but allows piano with paper to substitute. The invention of the "prepared piano", per se , is usually traced to John Cage . Cage first prepared a piano when he was commissioned to write music for Bacchanale , a dance by Syvilla Fort (its date is variously given as 1938 or 1940 ). For some time previously, Cage had been writing exclusively for

351-584: The Acoustisizer. Cage frequently cited Henry Cowell (1897–1965) as the primary inspiration for the prepared piano. Cowell pioneered piano extended techniques for what he dubbed " string piano ", involving reaching inside the piano and plucking, sweeping, scraping, thumping, and otherwise manipulating the strings directly, rather than using the keyboard. He developed these techniques in numerous pieces such as Aeolian Harp (1923) and The Banshee (1925). Pieces of paper were called for in several early 20c works,

378-572: The CD Midas & Marigold, A Family Opera , featuring music by Evans and book and lyrics by 'vid Buttaro and Squire Fridell . In November 2004, Evans took part in a collaborative composition and performance work called "Raw Impressions Musical Theater #1", with eight other composers. In 1995 Evans composed and recorded the music for the two-hour opera an oratorio based on the poetic works of William Butler Yeats , Maude Gonne , and Padraic Pearse : The Rising, An Irish Allegory. In 2001, Evans wrote

405-656: The Chelsea Studios in NYC in March 2010, and starred Rebecca Luker, Jill Paice, Robert Petkoff, and George Dvorsky. Evans has three children from his second marriage: Berklee Sati (b. 1977), Blake Lowrey-Evans (b. 1981), and Beka Lowrey-Evans (b. 1984). He is married to Debra Wakefield Evans, a television editor. Prepared piano A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between

432-630: The International Institute of Vocal Arts and first produced in the Theatre at Riverside Church (NYC). In 2009 Evans was commissioned by the West Bay Opera to create "Enchanted April, A Lyrical New Musical," based on the 1922 novel The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim . Evans in turn commissioned Charles Leipart to write the book and lyrics. The initial Industry Presentations of Enchanted April, directed by Annette Jolles, were produced at

459-587: The author. Cage wrote the foreword to the book, which has been repeatedly referred to by avant-garde pianists as "the classic" in the field, and which was later published in Japanese by Zen-On Music Ltd. Evans performed and recorded a concert of avant garde solo piano pieces at Oberlin, including works by Cage, Henri Lazarof , Barney Childs and Charles Ives. Using manuscript fragments and notes, Evans reconstructed Cage's 1939 incidental music for Jean Cocteau 's Marriage At The Eiffel Tower . Evans toured extensively in

486-458: The buzzing effect reminiscent of the parchment 'bassoon' pedal of early fortepianos. In his Ragamalika (1912–22), based on the classical music of India, French composer Maurice Delage (1879–1961) calls for a piece of cardboard to be placed under the B ♭ in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian drum. In his Chôros No. 8 , a 1925 work for large orchestra, Heitor Villa-Lobos instructs

513-413: The inside of the piano if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard". Strictly speaking, a tack piano is not a prepared piano, since Although the tacks can be removed from the hammers, inserting them causes permanent damage to the felt; for this and other reasons, the use of tacks is generally discouraged by piano technicians. The Acoustisizer is an electroacoustic musical instrument built from

540-578: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bunger&oldid=1150026088 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Richard Bunger Evans Enrolling as Richard Bunger, Evans studied at Lafayette College and Oberlin College where he obtained

567-645: The music for a performance of Thorstein Veblen 's The Theory of the Leisure Class to a libretto by Charles Leipart , that was presented by the National Association of Musical Theatres in New York City in 2002 and recreated as a vaudeville production produced by Stages 2006, staged at Kansas City Ballet. This musical was rewritten by the authors, retitled as "The Price of Everything" and produced during 2010 by

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594-583: The piano's traditional music stand. Evans called his invention the "Bungerack". Evans also invented a notational scheme called "Musiglyph", for unconventional piano compositions. Evans was invited to join Nicolas Slonimsky , Dane Rudhyar and others at the April 1973 music convocation called "The Expanded Ear", which culminated in the Six-Acre Jam , a piece in which 60 musicians played at various positions among

621-412: The strings. Its invention is usually traced to John Cage 's dance music for Bacchanale (1940), created for a performance in a Seattle venue that lacked sufficient space for a percussion ensemble. Cage has cited Henry Cowell as an inspiration for developing piano extended techniques , involving strings within a piano being manipulated instead of the keyboard. Typical of Cage's practice as summed up in

648-419: The subsequent repertoire include Lou Harrison , Pauline Oliveros , James Tenney , and Christian Wolff . When a properly prepared piano has been "unprepared", it should be impossible for anyone to tell that it had ever been prepared. Changes causing less easily reversible damage can be served by permanently dedicating an instrument, such as the tack piano . Other techniques related to prepared piano include

675-521: The trees on a mountain slope. In May 1973, Evans performed live in the radio studio for Charles Amirkhanian 's Other Minds radio program; Evans played compositions from Cage, Henry Cowell , Harold Budd , and E. T. Paull , and a recording of his piano and tape interpretation of a Morton Subotnick piece. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Evans toured in North America and Europe in support of music by 20th century American composers. He recorded

702-542: Was a 1980 recording project at Capitol Records that eventually resulted in the Richard Bunger CD Four Walls , but it was not released to the public until after 1985 when Cage allowed it to be made available; Cage had long considered these expressive pieces unrepresentative of his most influential avant garde work. Evans wrote The Well-Prepared Piano in 1973, a treatise on piano techniques for new music composition and performance with illustrations drawn by

729-515: Was named Outstanding Professor 1981–1982 of the 23-campus California State University system. Also at CSUDH, Evans wrote the music and helped write the lyric for the school's alma mater . While teaching at Queens University, Bunger became very interested in the techniques and performance of prepared piano , encountering John Cage in 1967. Evans studied Cage's early manuscripts and became expert enough that Cage asked him to edit some for publication, and to record performances of them. One such effort

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