26'1.1499" For A String Player

26'1.1499" For A String Player (1973)

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  • Runtime

    0h 42m

  • Language

    EN

  • Production Countries

  • Release Date

    1973-01-01

Overview

This tape is Jud Yalkut's video realization of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik's concert performance of John Cage's composition 26'1.1499" For String Player. In this extraordinary performance, which is manipulated and synthesized by Yalkut, Paik and Moorman play Cage's score on a collection of "instruments" that include a pistol, a dish of mushrooms, balloons, a practice aerial bomb, and a telephone call to President Nixon.

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