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By Hannah Jellen
Collection Overview
Title: Michael Manion Music and Papers, 1965-2008
ID: 26/20/188
Primary Creator: Manion, Michael (1952-2012)
Extent: 5.25 cubic feet
Arrangement: Content is arranged in five series: Series 1 contains published and unpublished music, Series 2 contains correspondence, Series 3 contains materials related to publication and research, Series 4 contains materials related to Michael's education, Series 5 contains sound recordings and audiovisual materials of Michael's music as well as the music of his contemporaries. All series are arranged alphabetically.
Date Acquired: 02/04/2013
Subjects: Alumni, Compositions-Music, Computer Music, Concerts, Electronic Music, Germany, Jazz, Music Composition, Netherlands, Percussion
Formats/Genres: Audio-Visual Material, Experimental Music, Sheet music, Sound Recordings
Languages: English, German
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Consists of original and published music, new music ensemble performance directions and diagrams, correspondence, research notes, audio recordings, photographs, concert programs, computer files, and posters documenting Michael Manion's career as a percussionist, composer of electroacoustical music, and scholar. Of particular interest is correspondence between Karlheinz Stockhausen and Manion related to Manion's work as Stockhausen's copyist between 1984 and 1987.
Biographical Note
Michael Lawrence Manion (1952-2012) was a percussionist and American composer of electroacoustical music. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Sgt. Major Harry Manion and Floy Manion, Michael studied percussion from a young age. Prior to earning his Bachelor of Music degree in composition and percussion performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1977, Manion played drums in the Grand Rapids Youth Orchestra as well as several local rock and jazz bands. At Oberlin, he studied composition and percussion with Randolph Coleman, Dary John Mizelle, Darlene Dougan, and Gary Lee Nelson. After graduating, Manion traveled to California to study with Robert Ashley at Mills for one year.
Manion earned his Master of Music in composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983, studying with Salvatore Martirano and Ben Johnston. During his time at the University of Illinois, Manion composed for the performance collective called Roulette, which was comprised of Illinois graduate students Camilla Hoitenga and John Fonville (flutes); Jim Staley and Bob Gale (trombones); and several composers including Dan Senn, David Means, and Robert Fleisher. Following their work together in Roulette, Hoitenga and Manion travelled to Köln, Germany in the summer of 1980. Manion soon sought lessons with Mauricio Kagel at the Musikhochschule Köln. Although Hoitenga had begun working with Karlheinz Stockhausen--performing his first solo piece for flute at an international competition in Rotterdam in 1980-- and despite Manion desperately wanting to study with him, Hoitenga was unsuccessful in putting Manion in contact with Stockhausen. After Hoitenga and Manion separated in 1981, Manion returned to the states for a year. He eventually met Stockhausen on his own during a 1982 composition course in Den Haag. Between 1984 and 1987 Manion served as Stockhausen's copyist, editing such works Kindheit, Nausenflugeltanz, Wochenkreis, and Madchenprozession.
As he was working with Stockhausen, Manion began studying with Jonathan Harvey at the Univeristy of Sussex. In 1986, Manion, Clarence Barlow, and several other German composers co-founded the composer's collective Gimik: Initiative Musik und Informatik Köln. Gimik was responsible for hosting the 14th International Computer Music Conference in Köln, municipal concert series and lectures in 1991 and 1995, and a summer residency at the Darmstadt Summer Courses in 1992. Manion performed regularly with Gimik at Feedback Studio near Köln's town hall, establishing networks for computer music and supporting both lectures and concerts of new music throughout Europe. Manion later served as the curator of a Gimik retrospective that took place during the International Computer Music Conference in Berlin in 2000.
In August 2001, Manion joined the composer Dennis Bathory-Kitsz at the Ought-One Festival in Montpellier, Vermont. Dubbed the "Woodstock of Non-Pop," the festival featured music compositions by Larry Austin, Clarence Barlow, Kyle Gann, Larry Polansky, and Kaija Saariaho and was dedicated to Barlow. During the festival, Manion performed Bathory-Kitsz's composition RatGeyser for malletKAT and electronic sounds, as well as his own composition Long Roll II.
Throughout the late 1990s, Manion performed regularly in jazz jam sessions with performers like Arjen Gorter (bass) and Sean Bergin (saxophone) at De Engelbewaarder Cafe in Amsterdam. Manion's composition and performance career stopped suddently in 2008, after he suffered a stroke. Manion died in 2012.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Acquisition Source:
Mrs. Floy Manion
Acquisition Method:
Gift
Related Materials:
Published scores of Stockhausen's music and books on Stockhausen's music that were not worked on by Michael Manion and not used for his research articles on Stockhausen were transfered to the Calvin College Library.
Other Note:
After his death in 2012, Manion's computer was donated to the Archive. The contents in this computer were not processed until 2025. Containing many legacy software files as well as European software files, accessing this content remains a major challenge.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Original and published music, ca. 1972-2008],
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Series 2: Correspondence, ca. 1972-2004],
[Series 3: Research, Publications, and Performance Materials, ca. 1977-2008],
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Series 4: Education and Personal Papers, ca. 1974-2010],
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Series 5: Sound Recordings, Audiovisual Materials, and Computer Files, ca. 1974-2007],
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All]
- Series 3: Research, Publications, and Performance Materials, ca. 1977-2008
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Compositional and musicological notes, undated
- Includes handwritten notes regarding both Michael Manion's compositions and research. Folder 1 of 2.
- Folder 2: Compositional and musicological notes, undated
- Includes handwritten notes regarding both Michael Manion's composition and research. Folder 2 of 2.
- Folder 3: Dienstags-Gruss, undated
- Segment of unknown piece.
- Author: Manion, Michael
- Folder 4: From Tape Loops to MIDI: Karlheinz Stockhausen's Forty Years of Electronic Music, undated
- Includes full final copy, fragments of copies, and drafts.
- Author: Manion, Michael
- Folder 5: Introduction to the Formula of Stockhausen's 'Donnerstag aus Licht', undated
- Includes draft and final copy.
- Author: Manion, Michael
- Folder 6: Lukas Foss Echo I analysis, undated
- Author: Manion, Michael
- Folder 7: Material Things as Logical Constructions, undated
- Author: Manion, Michael
- Folder 8: Miscellaneous fragments of pieces, undated
- Fragments of drafts and final copies of essays and papers.
- Author: Manion, Michael
- Folder 9: Stockhausen lecture transcription drafts, 1982
- Author: Manion, Michael; Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- Folder 10: Stockhausen lecture transcriptions, 1982
- Author: Manion, Michael; Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- Folder 11: Techniques of Formula Composition in Stockhausen's 'Donnerstag aus Licht', undated
- Author: Manion, Michael
- Folder 12: Two Views of Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132, First Movement, undated
- Author: Manion, Michael
- Box 11
- Folder 1: Le mois a caen, undated
- Folder 2: Introduction to the Super-Formula of 'Donnerstag aus Licht', undated
- Copy of published paper.
- Author: Manion, Michael
- Folder 3: Ear, 1977
- Folder 4: Contemporary Music Review brochure, 1988
- Folder 5: 'O Alter Duft': Stockhausen and the Return to Melody, 1976
- Author: Toop, Richard
- Folder 6: Eine Teezeremonie horen, 1977
- Author: Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- Folder 7: Sight Reader: A Computer Language Program for the Transcription of Piano Music, 1977
- Author: Ross, Daniel; Fravel, Carl
- Folder 8: Stockhausen's 'Tierkreis', 1978
- Author: Stockhausen, Christel
- Folder 9: Papers from IRCAM, 1978
- Includes Perceptions of Timbral Analogies, Musical Acoustics, Low Dimensional Control of Musical Timbre. Collected at IRCAM in 1978.
- Author: Ehresman, David; Wessel, David; Risset, Jean-Claude
- Folder 10: Stockhausen interviews, 1980-1987
- Folder 11: The Evolution of Macro- and Micro-Time Relations in Stockhausen's Recent Music, 1983
- Author: Kohl, Jerome
- Folder 12: Contact, 1984
- Folder 13: Electronic Music for 'Kathinka's Chant as Lucifer's Requiem', 1984
- Author: Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- Folder 14: Gaudeamus Information, 1984
- Folder 15: Stockhausen in Calcutta, 1984
- Author: Schnebel, Dieter; Frisius, Rudolf; Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- Folder 16: Michael im Himmel wie auf Erden, 1985
- Author: Riethmuller, Albrecht
- Folder 17: Zeitschrift fur Musikpadagogik, 1987
- Folder 18: Kontakte, Stockhausen 60. Geburtstag, 1988-1990
- Folder 19: Literatur und Kunst, 1990
- Folder 20: Our Path to Hearing Webern, 1990
- Author: Johnson, Donivan
- Folder 21: Von Kommenden Zeiten, 1990
- Author: Hennenberg, Fritz
- Folder 22: Hymnen: Tractatus Musica Unita, 1991
- Author: Hopkins, Nicholas F.
- Folder 23: Tempo, 1991
- Folder 24: Clavier Music, 1992
- Author: Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- Folder 25: Plan K-Ars Musica, 1992
- Folder 26: Dansk Musik Tidsskrift, 1992-1993
- Folder 27: Computer Music Journal, 1993
- Folder 28: Y (Muziekcentrum De Ijsbreker), 1995
- Box 12
- Folder 1: The American Music Center, Directory and "Opportunities for Composers", 1991
- Folder 2: Camilla Hoitenga profile, undated
- Folder 3: DuMont Dokumente Musik: Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1984
- Folder 4: Ex Machina '96 materials, 1996
- Folder 5: GIMIK and Studio Feedback Köln materials, 1977-2005
- Folder 6: International Computer Music Conference program, 1986
- Folder 7: International Music Conference questionnaire, 1984
- Folder 8: Michael Manion profile and list of compositions, undated
- Folder 9: Nicholas Isherwood profile, undated
- Folder 10: Prix Ars Electronica 94: A Duel Between Jurassic Park and France, 1994
- Folder 11: Stichting Logos flyer, undated
- Folder 12: The Stockhausen Project speech, ca. 1982
- Folder 13: Stockhausen-Verlag materials, 1991-1993
- Folder 14: Works list of Shigeru Kan-no, 2004
- Box 13
- Folder 1: Michael Manion concert programs, 2001-2008
- Folder 2: Concert programs, 2000-2007
- Includes programs from concerts of mentors and contemporaries.
- Folder 3: Stockhausen concert programs, 1992-1996
- Folder 4: Concert programs, 1991-1996
- Includes programs from concerts of mentors and contemporaries.
- Folder 5: Michael Manion concert programs, 1991-1996
- Folder 6: Concert programs, 1982-1987
- Includes programs from concerts of mentors and contemporaries.
- Folder 7: Stockhausen concert programs, 1981-1987
- Folder 8: Michael Manion concert programs, 1979-1984
- Box 8
- Folder 18: Michael Manion concert posters and copy of painting, 2000-2004
- Folder 19: Michael manion concert posters, 1996
- Folder 20: Michael Manion concert posters, 1980-1988
- Folder 21: Michael Manion concert poster with Camilla Hoitenga, flute, undated
- Folder 22: Stockhausen album sleeve, undated
- Oversize Portfolio Box 1
- Item 3: Trapezium poster, 1995
- Removed for conservation August 8, 2014
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Series 1: Original and published music, ca. 1972-2008],
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Series 2: Correspondence, ca. 1972-2004],
[Series 3: Research, Publications, and Performance Materials, ca. 1977-2008],
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Series 4: Education and Personal Papers, ca. 1974-2010],
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Series 5: Sound Recordings, Audiovisual Materials, and Computer Files, ca. 1974-2007],
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