books and music from the library of invisible birds (in progress)

• music and film books

• MUSIC - jazz

• - anthony braxton - forces in motion: the music and thoughts of anthony braxton (graham lock) - da capo - 1988
• - anthony braxton - mixtery: a festschrift for anthony braxton (graham lock) - stride publications - 1995

• - ornette coleman - ornette coleman: a harmonic life (john litweiler) - william morrow and company, inc. - 1992
• - ornette coleman - ornette coleman: his life and music (peter niklas wilson) - berkeley hills books - 1999

• - john coltrane - coltrane: chasin' the trane (j.c. thomas) - da capo - 1975

• - miles davis - miles beyond: the electric explorations of miles davis, 1967-1991 (paul tingen) - billboard books - 2001
• - miles davis - running the voodoo down: the electric music of miles davis (philip freeman) - backbeat books - 2005

• - eric dolphy - eric dolphy: a musical biography & discography (vladimir simosko & barry tepperman) - da capo - 1971/1996

• - barry guy - barry guy: solo, duo, trio, quartet, quintet, orchestra - intakt records / maya recordings

• - rahsaan roland kirk - bright moments: the life and legacy of rahsaan roland kirk (john kruth) - welcome rain publishers - 2000

• - charles mingus - myself when i am real: the life and music of charles mingus (gene santoro) - oxford university - 2000

• - thelonious monk - thelonious monk: his life and music (thomas fitterling) - berkeley hills books - 1997

• *****

• - richard cook & brian morton - the penguin guide to jazz recordings (third, seventh, ninth editions) - penguin press - 1996/2004/2008
• - richard cook & brian morton - the penguin jazz guide: the history of the music in the 1001 best albums - penguin press - 2010

• - john litweiler - the freedom principle: jazz after 1958 - da capo - 1984/1990

• - graham lock - chasing the vibration - stride publications - 1994

• - a b spellman - four lives in the bebop business (cecil taylor, ornette coleman, herbie nichols, jackie mclean) - macgibbon & kee - 1967

• - valerie wilmer - as serious as your life: the story of the new jazz - serpent's tail - 1977/1992

• MUSIC - classical

• - johann sebastian bach - oxford composer companions: j.s. bach (malcom boyd) - oxford university press - 1999
• - johann sebastian bach - johann sebastian bach: the learned musician (christoph wolff) - w.w. norton & company - 2000
• - johann sebastian bach - bach (malcom boyd) - oxford university press - 2000

• - ludwig van beethoven - late beethoven: music, thought, imagination (maynard solomon) - university of california press - 2003/2004

• - john cage - silence - wesleyan university press - 1961/1973
• - john cage - m: writings '67-'72 by john cage - wesleyan university press - 1972
• - john cage - i-vi john cage: the charles eliot norton lectures, 1988-89 - harvard university press - 1990
• - john cage - composition in retrospect - exact change - 1993
• - john cage - the roaring silence: john cage, a life - arcade publishing - 1992
• - john cage - rolywholyover a circus - rizzoli/museum of contemporary art - 1993
• - john cage - musicage: cage muses on words, art, music - wesleyan university press - 1996
• - john cage - october 81, 82: reconsidering john cage part 1 + 2 - mit press - 1997
• - john cage - visual art: to sober and quiet the mind - crown point press - 2000
• - john cage - zen ox-herding pictures - george braziller - 2009
• - john cage - every day is a good day: the visual art of john cage - hayward publishing - 2010
• - john cage - begin again: a biography of john cage (kenneth silverman) - knopf - 2010

• - morton feldman - give my regards to eight street: collected writings of morton feldman - exact change - 2000
• - morton feldman - morton feldman says: selected interviews and lectures 1964-1987 - hyphen press - 2006
• - morton feldman - vertical thoughts: morton feldman and the visual arts - irish museum of modern art - 2011

• - glenn gould - glenn gould: the performer in the world (kevin bazzana) - oxford university press - 1997
• - glenn gould - wondrous strange: the life and art of glenn gould (kevin bazzana) - oxford university press - 2004

• - george ivanovich gurdjieff - gurdjieff: harmonic development, the complete harmonium recordings 1948-1949 (g.j. blom) - basta - 2004

• - olivier messiaen - olivier messiaen: music and color, conversations with claude samuel - amadeus press - 1986/1994
• - olivier messiaen - messiane (peter hill & nigel simeone) - yale university press - 2005

• - erik satie - satie remembered (robert orledge) - amadeus press - 1995
• - erik satie - a mammal's notebook: collected writings of erik satie - atlas press - 1996
• - erik satie - erik satie (ornella volta) - hazan pocket archives - 1997

• *****

• - kyle gann - american music in the twentieth century - schirmer books - 1997

• - paul griffiths - modern music: a concise history - thames and hudson - 1978/1994
• - paul griffiths - modern music and after: directions since 1945 - clarendon paperbacks - 1995

• - brian morton - the blackwell guide to recorded contemporary music - blackwell publishers - 1996

• - edward strickland - minimalism: origins - indiana university press - 1993/2000

• MUSIC - avant-garde/drone

• - brian eno - on some faraway beach - the life and times of brian eno (david sheppard) - chicago review press - 2008

• - steve peters - here*ings: a sonic geohistory - la alameda press / pianíssimo - 2002

• - giancarlo toniutti & andrew chalk - tahta tarla - pans'urlo panseri - 1993
• - giancarlo toniutti & siegmar fricke - *ko/usk- - pans'ur pans, cjàse me - 1997

• - wolfgang voigt - gas (r-n 102) - rastor-noton - 2008

• *****

• - black dog publishing - krautrock: cosmic rock and its legacy - black dog publishing - 2009

• - raphael moser and heribert - extract: portraits of soundartists - nonvisualobjects - 2007

• - david toop - ocean of sound: aether talk, ambient sound and imaginary worlds - serpent's tail - 1995
• - david toop - sinister resonance: the mediumship of the listener - continuum - 2010

• MUSIC - popular

• - johnny cash - ring of fire: the johnny cash reader (michael streissguth) - da capo - 2002

• - bob dylan - behind the shades: revisited (clinton heylin) - william morrow - 1991/2001
• - bob dylan - the old, weird america: the world of bob dylan's basement tapes (greil marcus) - henry holt/picador - 1997
• - bob dylan - chronicles: volume one - simon & schuster - 2004
• - bob dylan - revolution in the air: the songs of bob dylan, 1957-1973 (clinton heylin) - chicago review press - 2009
• - bob dylan - bob dylan in america (sean wilentz) - doubleday - 2010

• - bert jansch - dazzling stranger: bert jansch and the british folk and blues revival (colin harper) - bloomsbury - 2000/2006

• - townes van zandt - a deeper blue: the life and music of townes van zandt (robert earl hardy) - university of north texas press - 2008

• MUSIC - general

• - john corbett - extended play: sounding off from john cage to dr. funkenstein - duke university press - 1994

• - steve lake & paul griffiths - horizons touched: the music of ecm - granta books - 2007

• - lars müller - windfall light: the visual language of ecm - lars müller publishers - 2010

• - rob young - electric eden: unearthing britain's visionary music - faber & faber - 2011

• FILM

• - michelangelo antonioni - antonioni (ian cameron & robin wood) praeger - 1968
• - michelangelo antonioni - antonioni: or, the surface of the world (seymour chatman) - university of california press - 1985

• - ingmar bergman - bergman on bergman: interviews with ingmar bergman (stig björkman, torsten manns, jonas sima) - da capo - 1070/1973/1986/1993
• - ingmar bergman - ingmar bergman: a critical biography (peter cowie) - limelight editions - 1982/1992
• - ingmar bergman - ingmar bergman: interviews (raphael shargel) - university press of mississippi - 2007

• - stan brakhage - a moving picture giving and taking book - frontier press - 1971
• - stan brakhage - film biographies - turtle island - 1977
• - stan brakhage - brakhage scrapbook: collected writings 1964-1980 (robert a. haller) - documentext - 1982
• - stan brakhage - film at wit's end: eight avant-garde filmmakers (broughton, conner, deren, hill, jacobs, maclaine, menken, peterson)
•   documentext - 1989//1992

• - robert bresson - notes on the cinematographer - green integer - 1975/1997
• - robert bresson - robert bresson (philippe arnaud) - cahiers du cinéma - 1986
• - robert bresson - bresson: ou l'acte pur des métamorphoses (jean sémolué) - flammarion - 1993
• - robert bresson - robert bresson: éloge (philippe arnaud) - edizioni gabrielle mazzotta/cinémathèqur française, paris - 1997
• - robert bresson - robert bresson (james quandt) - cinematheque ontario - 1998
• - robert bresson - robert bresson: a spiritual style in film (joseph cunneen) - continuum - 2003
• - robert bresson - robert bresson: a passion for film (tony pipolo) - oxford university press - 2010

• - john cassavetes - cassavetes on cassavetes (ray carney) - faber and faber - 2001

• - charlie chaplin - charlie chaplin: comic genius (david robinson) - gallimard/harry n. abrams - 1995

• - carl-theodor dreyer - the films of carl-theodor dreyer (david bordwell) - university of california press - 1981

• - thomas a. edison - thomas a. edison and his kinetographic motion pictures (charles musser) - rutgers university press - 1995

• - victor erice - an open window: the cinema of victor erice (linda c. ehrlich) - the scarecrow press - 2007

• - rainer werner fassbinder - rainer werner fassbinder (laurence kardish & juliane lorenz) - the museum of modern art - 1997
• - rainer werner fassbinder - rainer werner fassbinder: berlin alexanderplatz - schirmer/mosel - 2007

• - oskar fischinger - optical poetry: the life and work of oskar fischinger - indiana university press - 2004

• - john ford - john ford (peter bogdanovich) - university of california press - 1967/1978
• - john ford - pappy: the life of john ford (dan ford) - da capo - 1978/1998
• - john ford - about john ford... (lindsay anderson) - plexus - 1981/1999
• - john ford - john ford: the man and his films (tag gallagher) - university of california press - 1986
• - john ford - john ford: interviews (gerald peary) - university press of mississippi - 2001
• - john ford - searching for john ford: a life (joseph mcbride) - st. martin's press - 2001
• - john ford - john ford: the complete films (scott eyman & paul duncan) - taschen - 2004
• - john ford - ford at fox - the collection (book + 21 dvds) - 20th century fox - 2007

• - samuel fuller - a third face: my tale of writing, fighting, and filmmaking - applause - 2002

• - ernie gehr - films of ernie gehr - san francisco cinematheque - 1993
• - ernie gehr - ernie gehr: brother can you spare some time - san francisco art institute - 1995

• - howard hawks - hawks on hawks (joseph mcbride) - university of california press - 1982

• - alfred hitchcock - hitchcock (françois truffaut) - simon & schuster - 1983/1985

• - wong kar-wai - wong kar-wai (stephen teo) - bfi - 2005

• - krzysztof kieślowski - krzysztof kieślowski: variations on destiny and chance (marek haltof) - wallflower press - 2004
• - krzysztof kieślowski - the films of krzysztof kieślowski: the liminal image (joseph g. kickasola) - continuum - 2004

• - akira kurosawa - the films of akira kurosawa (donald richie) - university of california press - 1965/1984/1996/1998
• - akira kurosawa - the warrior's camera: the cinema of akira kurosawa (stephen prince) - princeton university press - 1991/1999
• - akira kurosawa - the emperor and the wolf: the lives of akira kurosawa and toshiro mifune (stuart galbraith iv) - faber and faber - 2001
• - akira kurosawa - seven samurai (joan mellen) - bfi - 2002

• - fritz lang - une anticipation de la cite future a l'écran: métropolis - la petite illustration - 1928
• - fritz lang - the cinema of fritz lang (paul m. jensen) - a.s. barnes & co./zwemmer - 1969
• - fritz lang - friz lang (lotte eisner) - da capo - 1976/1986
• - fritz lang - m (anton kaes) - bfo - 1999/2001
• - fritz lang - the films of fritz lang: allegories of vision and modernity (tom gunning) - bfi - 2000

• - henri langlois - a passion for films: henri langlois and the cinémathèque française - the viking press - 1983
• - herni langlois - herni langlois: first citizen of cinema (glenn myrent & george p. langlois) - twayne publishers - 1986/1995

• - joseph losey - conversations with losey (michel ciment) - methuen - 1985

• - terrence malick - the cinema of terrence malick: poetic visions of america - wallflower press - 2003

• - gregory j. markopoulos - four essays - cinematheque ontario/san francisco cinematheque/temenos, inc. - 1997

• - jonas mekas - movie journal: the rise of a new american cinema, 1959-1971 - collier books - 1972
• - jonas mekas - i had nowhere to go - black thistle press - 1991
• - jonas mekas - to free the cinema: jonas mekas & the new york underground (david e. james) - princeton university press - 1992
• - jonas mekas - zefiro torna or scenes from the life of george maciunas (fluxus) - arthouse books - 1997

• - jean-pierre melville - melville on melville (rui nogueira) - the viking press - 1971
• - jean-pierre melville - le cinéma selon: jean-pierre melville (rui nogueira) - éditions de l'étoile - 1996
• - jean-pierre melville - l'entretien avec jean-pierre melville (françois barat) - séguier - 1999
• - jean-pierre melville - jean-pierre melville: an american in paris (ginette vincendeau) - bfi - 2003

• - kenji mizoguchi - kenji mizoguchi: the master - cinematheque ontario (james quandt) - 1996

• - walter murch - the conversations: walter murch and the art of editing film (michael ondaatje) - alfred a. knopf - 2002

• - yasujirô ozu - ozu (donald richie) - university of california press - 1974/1977

• - michael powell - the cinema of michael powell: international perspectives on an english film-maker (ian cristie & andrew moor) - bfi - 2005

• - nicholas ray - i was interrupted: nicholas ray on making movies - university of california press - 1993

• - jean renoir - jean renoir (andré bazin) - da capo - 1973/1992

• - martin scorsese - scorsese on scorsese (david thompson & ian christie) - faber and faber - 1989
• - martin scorsese - conversations with scorsese - knopf - 2011

• - josef von sternberg - fun in a chinese laundry - the macmillan company - 1965

• - andrey tarkovsky - sculpting in time: reflections on the cinema - university of texas press - 1986/1996
• - andrei tarkovsky - andrei tarkovsky: interviews (john gianvito) - university of mississippi - 2006
• - andrei tarkovsky - tarkovsky (nathan dunne) - black dog publishing - 2008

• - béla tarr - béla tarr - the museum of modern art - 2001

• - jacques tati - the films of jacques tati (michel chion) - guernica - 2003
• - jacques tati - jacques tati (david bellos) - the harvill press - 1999

• - lars von trier - trier on von trier (stig björkman) - faber and faber - 1999
• - lars von trier - lars von trier (jack stevenson) - bfi - 2002

• - jean vigo - jean vigo (p.e. salles gomes) - faber and faber - 1957/1998

• *****

• - richard abel - the ciné goes to town: french cinema 1896-1914 - university of california press - 1994

• - association of european cinematographers - making pictures: a century of european cinematography - harry n. abrams - 2003

• - mary lea bandy & antonio monda - the hidden god: film and faith - the museum of modern art - 2003

• - peter bogdanovich - who the devil made it: conversations with legendary film directors - ballantine books - 1997

• - raymond borde & etienne chaumeton - a panorama of american film noir 1941-1953 - city lights books - 1955/2002

• - david bordwell - on the history of film style - harvard university1997/1999 press - 2005
• - david bordwell - figures traced in light: on cinematic staging - university of california press - 2005

• - c.w. ceram - archaeology of the cinema - harcourt, brace & world inc. - 1965

• - brian davis - the thriller - studio vista - 1973

• - w.k.l. dickson & antonia dickson - history of the kinetogrraph, kinetoscope and kinetophonograph - the museum of modern art - 1895/2000

• - lotte eisner - the haunted screen - university of california press - 1952/1965/1973

• - thomas elasaesser - early cinema: space, frame, narrative - bfi - 1990

• - john .l fell - film before griffith - university of california press - 1983

• - film culture vol. 1 no. 4 summer, 1955 - 1955
• - film culture vol. 2 no. 4(10) - 1956
• - film culture no. 31 winter 1963-64 - 1964
• - film culture no. 46 autumn 1967 - 1967
• - film culture no. 47 summer 1969 structural film by p. adams sitney - 1969
• - film culture no. 52 spring 1971- 1971
• - film culture no. 53-54-55 spring 1972- 1972
• - film culture no. 56-57 spring 1973- 1973
• - film culture no. 63-64 - 1977
• - film culture no. 70-71 - 1983
• - film culture: an index to "film culture" no1.-no.75 - 1985

• - ben m. hall - the best remaining seats: the story of the golden age of the movie palace - clarkson n. potter, inc. 1961

• - steven higgins - still moving: the film and media collections of the museum of modern art - the museum of modern art - 2006

• - foster hirsch - film noir: the dark side of the screen - da capo - 1981/1983

• - scott macdonald - a critical cinema: interviews with independent filmmakers - university of california press - 1988
• - scott macdonald - a critical cinema 2: interviews with independent filmmakers - university of california press - 1992
• - scott macdonald - avant-garde film: motion studies - cambridge university press - 1993
• - scott macdonald - cinema 16: documents towards a history of the film society (2 volumes) - wide angle - 1997
• - scott macdonald - a critical cinema 3: interviews with independent filmmakers - university of california press - 1998
• - scott macdonald - the garden in the machine: a field guide to independent films about place - university of california press - 2001
• - scott macdonald - a critical cinema 4: interviews with independent filmmakers - university of california press - 2005
• - scott macdonald - a critical cinema 5: interviews with independent filmmakers - university of california press - 2006

• - laurent mannoni - the great art of light and shadow: archaeology of the cinema - university of exeter press - 1995/2000

• - millennium film journal - nos. 12 - millennium film journal - 1982/1983
• - millennium film journal - nos. 16/17/18 20th anniversary special edition - millennium film journal - 1986/1987

• - the museum of modern art - junction and journey: trains and film - the museum of modern art - 1991

• - charles musser - history of the american cinema volume 1: the emergence of cinema: the american screen to 1907 - university of
•   california press - 1990

• - geoffrey nowell-smith - the oxford history of world cinema - oxford university press - 1996

• - gerald o'grady & bruce posner - articulated light: the emergence of abstract film in america - harvard film archives/anthology
•   film archives - 1995

• - david robinson - from peep show to palace: the birth of american film - columbia university press - 1996

• - jonathan rosenbaum - essential cinema: on the necessity of film canons - the johns hopkins university press - 2004

• - robert russett & cecile starr - experimental animation: origins of a new art - da capo - 1976/1988

• - dennis schaefer & larry salvato - masters of light: conversations with contemporary cinematographers - university of california press - 1984

• - thomas schatz - history of the american cinema volume 6: book and bust: american cinema in the 1940s - university of california press - 1997

• - paul schrader - transcendental style in film: ozu, bresson, dreyer - da capo - 1972/1988

• - p. adams sitney - visionary film: the american avant-garde 1943-1978 - oxford university press - 1974/1979
• - p. adams sitney - the essential cinema: essays on the films in the collection of anthology film archives - anthology film archives - 1975/1989

• - maggie valentine - the show starts on the sidewalk: an architectural history of the movie theatre starring s. charles lee - yale
•   university press - 1994

• - william c. wees - light moving in time: studies in the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film - university of california press - 1992

• - gene youngblood - expanded cinema - e.p. dutton & co. - 1970