JOHN CAGE: 33 1/3, 1969

 
November 19 – 26, 2007
 

Special Opening Event:
Tuesday, November 20, 6pm
An open session of audience interaction with 33 1/3 and SHARE, an improvisational and predominantly electronic emergent art community and forum.
 

Special Open Session:
Saturday, November 24, 11am-6pm
Re-creating a reading with John Cage, originally done in the 70's, MaryBeth Edelson interjects random texts by Gertrude Stein into the scores of music the audience composes, and she will invite the audience to participate by taking over the performance.
 

The final week of White Noise II offers a unique opportunity to visitors to become acquainted with the pivotal 1969 work by John Cage titled 33 1/3, a forerunner of the American avant-garde. Visitors are welcomed by an audio-visual piece of 12 phonographs and 200 to 300 albums and are invited to create their own musical score. This truly interactive piece shows Cage’s extraordinary blend of music, Fluxus and Performance Art, where people pick random music and spin their selection on the 33 1/3 record turntables, creating new music. The piece turns the concept of authorship on its head and, in a classic Cage Buddhist and democratic gesture, during their visit each person becomes a temporary composer–performer. The new and totally original musical score is composed from the blend of each individual visitor-turned-composer. In the end, the experience may lead to several surprising daily symphonic concerts.

 

John Cage’s 33 1/3: © 1969 by Henmar Press Inc. C.F. Peters, sole selling agent. Used by permission. All rights reserved.




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WHITE BOX is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Annual exhibitions are supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with additional annual organization funds from The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation.