Digital Resource


Curator: Nancy Perloff, Modern and New Media Collections

Web site project management: Sally Hubbard

Project assistance: Deb Lenert

Research assistance: Eric Smigel, Kelli Olgren, Phil Curtis

Technical and administrative assistance: Alison Langmead

Technical Web site assistance: Debra Canter

2010 Web site updates: Jannon Stein

Streaming media technology: Steven Swimmer

Photography: Robert Walker, John Kiffe, and Jobe Benjamin, Visual Media Services, Getty Research Institute

Image digitizing: Michael Smith, Digital Imaging Lab, J. Paul Getty Museum; Don Williamson, Visual Media Services, Getty Research Institute; and Luna Imaging, www.lunaimaging.com

Audio digitizing: Tom Erbe and John D.S. Adams

Collection reformatting: Gretchen Karl and Mary Sackett

Audio/visual reformatting for historical preservation and archiving by Michael Vail Blum and Kyle Clauden for Titan Recording, Sherman Oaks, CA, (818) 990-6992

We acknowledge the kind support of Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego Department of Music, for providing equipment and studio space for the audio digitizing by Tom Erbe.

The Getty Research Institute thanks Performing Artservices and the Estate of David Tudor for their assistance in the acquisition of the David Tudor research papers.

All of the images displayed on this Web site are reproduced from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute unless otherwise specified. Please see the Getty Terms of Use/Copyright page for rights information.

Every effort has been made to correctly attribute and describe all resources included in this Digitized Library Collection. If you wish to correct any information contained herein please contact Nancy Perloff, Curator of Modern and New Media Collections.


The Art of David Tudor Symposium


Symposium organized by Nancy Perloff, Collections Curator, Getty Research Institute

Thanks to Ron Kuivila, adjunct associate professor of music, Wesleyan University, for serving as consulting advisor on the planning and implementation of the symposium and special events.

Recordings of the symposium were produced by the Getty Research Institute, California Institute of the Arts School of Music, and Glasseye Productions for the Research Institute. Barbro Schultz Lundestam recorded the realization of Rainforest IV for Experiments in Art and Technology.

Symposium Web site project management: Linda Tadic



Thanks to


Susan Allen
Carolyn Gray Anderson
Murtha Baca
Gail Feigenbaum
Kathryn Girard
Joy Nemiroff
Isotta Poggi
Marcia Reed