Toop 180: "If Richard Maxfield had not committed suicide in 1969, and if his electronic music pieces were not so difficult to find or to hear, then our ideas of how music has changed and opened out during the past thirty-five years might be very different"
"although most rock critics attribute a Stockhausen influence to the Lennon/Ono tape experiments of The Beatles' White Album and after, they are far closer to the work of Maxfield"
La Monte Young presents Maxfield's work to a group of Bay Area composers including Terry Riley (1960)
also 1960: La Monte Young and Joseph Byrd take Maxfield's electronic music classes at the New School in New York
"At the heart of avant-rock, hybrid electronics and plunderphonics, yet completely obscured by the vagaries of history, is Richard Maxfield"
see Maxfield's Steam IV (1961)