26'1.1499" For A String Player (movie)

26'1.1499" For A String Player (movie)

  • Production country: US
  • Producer: Jud Yalkut
  • Release date: 1/1/1973
  • Run time: 42 min.

Movie description

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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Charlotte Moorman

Charlotte Moorman

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Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

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