26'1.1499" For A String Player (1973)

Status: Released
Original Language: English
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0

Name: 26'1.1499" For A String Player
Released: 1973-01-01
Duration: 42 min
Cast: Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik

Jan 01, 1973 0h 42m

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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.