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US composer, born August 10, 1934, in Silver City, New Mexico and died August 24th, 2006.

ALBUMS


James Tenney
Postal Pieces
2024, LP, Gre, Blume
James Tenney, EnsembleSpectrum
Harmonic Spaces
2024, CD, Album, UBU Collection
James Tenney
Acoustic Phenomena/Hymnic Sounds
2020, CD, Album, Edition Wandelweiser Records, ,
Contemporary
James Tenney
Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps
2019, 2xCD, Album, New World Records, ,
Contemporary
James Tenney - Scordatura Ensemble*
Harmonium
2018, ,
Contemporary
James Tenney - Dario Calderone
Bass Works
2016, CD, Album, hat[now]ART, ,
Contemporary
Rrose Plays James Tenney
Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
2015
John Cage / James Tenney / Alvin Lucier / Steve Reich - Peter Söderberg And Erik Peters
On The Carpet Of Leaves Illuminated By The Moon
2014, CD, Album, Alice Musik Produktion, ,
Experimental/Contemporary
Bach*, Parra*, Tenney*
Multiple Paths
2014, CD + DVD-V + Album, Orpheus Institute
John Cage, James Tenney
Sonatas & Interludes
2012, CD, Album, hat[now]ART, ,
Modern
Zeitkratzer : James Tenney
Old School: James Tenney
2010, CD, ,
Contemporary/Post-Modern
James Tenney - The Barton Workshop
Spectrum Pieces
2009, 2xCD, Album, New World Records, ,
Contemporary
James Tenney - Quatuor Bozzini
Arbor Vitæ - Quatuors + Quintettes
2008, 2xCD, qb
James Tenney, The Barton Workshop
Melody, Ergodicity And Indeterminacy
2007, CD, Album, Mode, ,
Contemporary/Experimental
James Tenney - The Barton Workshop / James Fulkerson
Postal Pieces
2004, 2xCD, New World Records
James Tenney - Maelström Percussion Ensemble Conducted By Jan Williams
Pika-Don
2004, CD, Album, hat[now]ART, ,
Contemporary
James Tenney - musikFabrik - Edgar Varèse*, John Cage, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman
Forms 1-4 - In Memoriam Edgar Varèse, John Cage, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman
2002, 2xCD, Album, Ltd, hat[now]ART, ,
Contemporary
James Tenney - Marc Sabat, Stephen Clarke
Music For Violin & Piano
1999, CD, Ltd, hat[now]ART, ,
Contemporary/Experimental
James Tenney - Matthias Kaul
The Solo Works For Percussion
1998, CD, Album, Ltd, hat[now]ART
Karlheinz Stockhausen - James Tenney, William Winant
Kontakte
1997
James Tenney - Tomas Bächli, Gertrud Schneider, Erika Radermacher, Manfred Werder
Bridge & Flocking
1996, CD, Album, Ltd, hat ART, ,
Contemporary/Experimental
James Tenney
Selected Works 1961-1969
1992
John Melby / James Tenney
Concerto For Violin, English Horn & Computer-Synthesized Tape / Saxony
1985, LP, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), ,
Contemporary
James Tenney
Musicworks 27: The Music Of James Tenney: Selected Works 1963-1984
1984
Charles Ives - Ted Puffer, James Tenney With Philip Corner
Charles Ives Songs (Volume 1: 1894 To 1915)
1966, LP, Folkways Records
Charles Ives - Ted Puffer, James Tenney, Philip Corner
Charles Ives Songs: Volume 2: 1915 To 1929
1965
Various
A Chance Operation - The John Cage Tribute
1993, 2xCD, Koch International Classics, ,
Modern Classical/Field Recording/Abstract/Experimental/Spoken Word

APPEARANCES +


Manuel Zurria
Fame di Vento
2024, 3xCD, Gat, Ants, ,
Contemporary/Sound Art
Noël Akchoté
Hommage (The Music Of James Tenney, 1957-1994) (For Guitar).
2023, 17xFile, MP3, Album, 320, Noël Akchoté Downloads
Bertrand Chamayou - Satie*
Letter(s) To Erik Satie
2023
Aisha Orazbayeva
Music For Violin Alone
2020, ,
Baroque/Modern/Contemporary/Post-Modern
Peter Orins
Happened By Accident
2019, CD, Album, Circum-Disc, Tour De Bras
Pedro Pablo Cámara Toldos*
Solitaire: Solo Saxophone Masterpieces
2019, 2xCD, Album, IBS Classical
Dither
Potential Differences
2019, CD, Album, New Focus Recordings
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Originale
2018, LP, Album, Ltd, Cyalume & Argonzer, ,
Experimental/Abstract
Philip Corner
The Judson Years
2018, CD, RE + CD, RE + CD, RE + Box, Comp, Num, Alga Marghen, ,
Sound Art
Various
Clusters: American Piano Explorations
2018, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Contemporary
Jackson Mac Low
Poetry And Music
2018
Aki Takahashi
Aki Takahashi Plays Hyper Beatles Volume I
2017, CD, Album, Camerata
Trevor Babb
Warmth
2017, CD, Album, Innova Recordings
Ryan Muncy
ism
2016, CD, Album, Tundra (14)
Susan Allen
Postcard From Heaven
2015, CD, Album, Comp, New World Records
Rrose
Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
2015
Philip Corner
PoorManMusic
2015
Johnny Chang and d'incise
8CYM / For Percussions Perhaps, Or…
2014, 2xFile, FLAC, Compost And Height
Various
Artistic Experimentation In Music: An Anthology
2014, CD, Comp, Orpheus Institute
William Winant
Five American Percussion Pieces
2013, LP, Album, Ltd, Poon Village
Various
Cold Blue Two
2012, CD, Cold Blue Music, ,
Post-Modern/Contemporary
Robert Black, John McDonald
Modern American Bass
2011, 2xCD, Album, New World Records, ,
Modern/Contemporary
Ensemble Modern, Dietmar Wiesner
Ghibli
2010, CD, Album, Ensemble Modern Medien
Heather O'Donnell
Responses To Ives
2009, CD, Album, DSD, Mode
Chou Wen-chung
Tribute to Chou Wen-chung
2009, 2xCD, Album, Albany Records, ,
Modern
Conlon Nancarrow
Studies For Player Piano : The Original 1750 Arch Recordings
2008, 4xHDCD, Comp, RM + Box, Other Minds, ,
Modern
Dominic Donato
Metalmorphosis: Music For Tamtams
2008, CD, Album, Capstone Records,
Cristin Wildbolz
Collaborations
2007, DVD-V, Multichannel, 4.1, Unit Records (2), ASM / STV
Richard Sacks
Ten Planets (Music For Solo Percussion)
2007, CD, Album, Artifact Music
Various
Timefields & Maritides
2006, CD, Comp, Enh, Musicworks
Jenny Lin
The Eleventh Finger
2006, CD, Album, Koch International Classics
Eve Egoyan
Weave
2006, CD, Album, Eve Egoyan
Various
soundCd no. 2
2004, CD, Comp, soundNet recordings, ,
Experimental/Free Improvisation
Jacqueline Humbert
Chanteuse (Songs Of A Different Sort)
2004, CD, Album, Comp, Lovely Music, Ltd., ,
Modern/Abstract/Experimental
Stephan Von Huene
The Retrospective
2003, CD-ROM, Hatje Cantz
Various
Musicworks 86: Summer 2003
2003, CD, Comp, Musicworks
Aki Takahashi
Golden Slumbers - Best Of Hyper Music From Lennon & McCartney
2001, CD, Comp, Eastworld
Various
OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)
2000, ,
Musique Concrète/Experimental
Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan*
Road To Ubud
1999, CD, Album, Artifact Music
Sonic Youth
Goodbye 20th Century
1999, ,
Abstract/Modern Classical/Experimental/Contemporary
Seth Josel
Long Distance (Music For Classic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Mandolin)
1998, CD, Album, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), ,
Contemporary/Experimental
Seth Josel
Go Guitars
1998, CD, Album, OODiscs, ,
Post-Modern
Virginia Eskin
Spring Beauties
1998, CD, Album, Koch International Classics, ,
Ragtime
Ulrich Krieger
Walls Of Sound
1997, CD, Album, OODiscs
Various
Donaueschinger Musiktage 1996
1997, 3xCD, Comp, col legno
Nexus
Nexus Plays The Music Of Hawkins, Tenney And Mather
1997, CD, Album, Nexus (6)
Allison Cameron
Raw Sangudo
1995, CD, Album, Experimental Intermedia Foundation
Various
Donaueschinger Musiktage 1994
1995, 3xCD, col legno, ,
Contemporary
Henrik Frisk
Inventions of Solitude
1995, CD, Album, Hornblower Recordings
Double Edge
U.S. Choice
1994, CD, Album, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), ,
Modern
Arraymusic
New World
1993, CD, Album, Artifact Music
Sound Pressure
Pressure Points
1993, CD, Album, Soundprints (2)
Aki Takahashi
Let It Be: Hyper Music From Lennon & McCartney
1992, CD, Album, Eastworld
Xylo
People Who Hit Things
1991, CD, Album, Clover Eclectic, ,
Contemporary/Modern
Conlon Nancarrow
Studies For Player Piano · Vol. I & II
1991
Malcolm Goldstein
Sounding The New Violin
1991
Arraymusic
Strange City / Ville Étrange
1988, CD, Album, Artifact Music
Conlon Nancarrow
Studies For Player Piano · Vol. V
1988
Various
Musicworks 29: Times & Tides 1985
1985, Cass, Comp, C45, Musicworks
The Chorus at Bennington College, Randall Neale With Members Of The Sage City Symphony
Aurora Borealis
1984, Cass, Album, sage city symphony
Nurit Tilles
Ragtime Here And Now!
1983, LP, Album, Jazzology
Conlon Nancarrow
Complete Studies For Player Piano Volume Three
1981, LP, 1750 Arch Records
Conlon Nancarrow
Complete Studies For Player Piano Volume Two
1979, LP, 1750 Arch Records
Various
Silver Burdett Music, Book 1
1978, 10xLP, Comp + Box, Album, Silver Burdett Records, Silver Burdett Company, ,
Educational/Vocal/Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Modern/Special Effects/Folk/Gospel
Conlon Nancarrow
Complete Studies For Player Piano Volume One
1977, LP, 1750 Arch Records
Jack Dailey With Harry Arnold And His Orchestra*
Your Dailey Bouquet From Jack
1960
Conlon Nancarrow
Studies For Player Piano
2xCD, Comp, RE + 2xCD, Comp, RE + CD, RE + Box, Co, WERGO
Various
Postal Pieces / New Music For Electronic And Recorded Media / Vocal Trio
2024, LP, Gre + LP, Red + LP, Cre, Blume, ,
Ambient/Drone/Experimental/Sound Art/Abstract/Minimal/Contemporary/Avantgarde
Manuel Zurria
Again & Again
2020, 2xCD, Album, Ants
Mary Lattimore
FACT Mix 703
2019, File, WAV, Mixed, FACT Magazine, ,
Folk/Indie Rock/Ethereal/Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock/New Age/Drone/Ambient
Various
Collection Musique Concrète Volume 13
2017, 11xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Sinetone AMR
Various
Electronic Music... It Started Here
2017, LP, Comp, Not Now Music, ,
Abstract/Ambient/Experimental
Various
Electronic Music... It Started Here
2016, ,
Abstract/Ambient/Experimental
DJ S.Y.D*
Invisibles Pensées
2015, File, FLAC, Mixed, Bruits De Fond, ,
Ambient/Drone/Noise/Experimental
Various
West Coast Soundings
2014, 2xCD, Edition Wandelweiser Records
Loscil
Secret Thirteen Mix 052
2013, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, Secret Thirteen Journal, ,
Modern Classical/Experimental/Score/Ambient/Acoustic
Rrose
Secret Thirteen Mix 065
2013, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, Secret Thirteen Journal, ,
Tribal/Experimental/Minimal/Ambient/Dub Techno
The Eclipse Quartet, William Winant
Eclipse Quartet plays Parkins, Rzewski & Tenney
2013, CD, Album, New World Records
Rrose
Ep.153
2012, File, MP3, Mixed, 256, Electronique.it Podcast Series, ,
Abstract/Techno/Minimal/Ambient
Various
Music For A Retro-Future
2011, CD, Comp, Other Sounds, ,
Technical/Musique Concrète/Experimental
Margaret Lancaster
Io
2009, CD, Album, New World Records
Various
Player Piano 6 • Original Compositions In The Tradition Of Nancarrow
2008, CD, Album, Musikproduktion Dabringhaus Und Grimm
DJ Food
Raiding The 20th Century (Words & Music Expansion)
2005, File VBR, ,
Cut-up/DJ/Monolog
Various
Between Sound And Vision
2001, CD, Comp, Gallery 400, ,
Experimental
Various
Musicworks 77: Community Resonances
2000, CD, Comp, Musicworks
Various
Cocks Crow, Dogs Bark: New Compositional Intentions
1997, CD, Comp, Leonardo Music Journal, ,
Contemporary/Experimental
Various
Musikprotokoll - Im Steirischen Herbst 97
1997, CD, Album, ORF Steiermark
Various
Musicworks 64: Sound Ecology 3 - Perception
1996, CD, Album, Comp, Musicworks, ,
Musique Concrète/Experimental/Contemporary/Free Improvisation
Various
Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology Volume 19, 1995
1995, CD, Comp, Computer Music Journal, ,
Experimental
Various
Computer Music Currents 13
1995, CD, Comp, WERGO, WERGO
Various
Musicworks 56: Sound/Image
1993, CD, Comp, Musicworks, ,
Modern/Ambient/Musique Concrète
Various
Computer Music Journal Soundsheet Examples
1993, Flexi, 7", Computer Music Journal
Various
Musicworks 56: Sound/Image
1993, Cass, Comp, Musicworks, ,
Modern/Ambient/Musique Concrète
Relâche
On Edge: Chamber Music By James Tenney, Paul Epstein, Thomas Albert
1991, CD, Album, Mode
Various
Ear Magazine Presents Absolut CD #3, Improvisation/Composition
1991, CD, Album, Comp, Ear Magazine, ,
Avantgarde/Experimental/Contemporary/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Various
Tellus, The Audio Cassette Magazine #24 - FluxTellus
1990, Cass, Comp, Tellus, ,
Experimental
Various
Ear Magazine Presents Absolut CD #1, New Music Canada
1990, CD, Album, Comp, Ear Magazine
Various
Musicworks 34: There Is No Reason To Believe That Music Exists
1986, Cass, Comp, C45, Musicworks
Various
Decade: The First Ten Years Of The Music Gallery
1986, Cass, Comp, C90, Music Gallery Editions, ,
Leftfield/Alternative Rock/Noise/Spoken Word/Modern/Experimental/Poetry/Avantgarde/Art Rock/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Folk/Minimal
Various
Tellus - The Audio Cassette Magazine #14
1986, Cass, Comp, C60, Tellus, ,
Gamelan/Contemporary/Experimental
Various
Cold Blue
1984
Various
Voice Of The Computer: New Musical Horizons
1970
Various
Music From Mathematics
1962
Various
Square Wave 2 (electronic music 1955-1983)
Cass, Comp, default tapes, ,
Abstract/Ambient/Berlin-School/Musique Concrète
Sonic Youth
MP3 Collection Part 2
2005, CDr, CD-ROM, Comp, Unofficial, MP3, Digital Records (6), ,
Alternative Rock/Abstract/Modern Classical/Experimental/Noise/Avantgarde/Indie Rock
Sonic Youth
Goodbye 20th Century
1999, ,
Avantgarde/Experimental/Post-Modern
John Cage
First Construction (In Metal)
1995, 7", Ltd, Unofficial, Dolor Del Estamago, ,
Modern