From: Joel S Bachar (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2008 - 09:21:31 PDT
VARIATIONS VII BY JOHN CAGE: E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering
Available April 1 from Microcinema DVD:
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Variations VII by John Cage
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CATALOG # MC-749
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Documentary
2008 · 41 mins plus 85 minute audio recording
NTSC/PAL Formats
©2008 E.A.T. and ARTPIX
Variations VII by John Cage
E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering
In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell
Telephone
Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater
performances,
9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held in October at the 69th Regiment
Armory
in New York City. The artists were John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind
Fahlström,
Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg,
David Tudor
and Robert Whitman. Archival material has been assembled into ten films,
each of
which reconstructs the artist's original work and uses interviews with the
artists,
engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and
historical aspects
of the work.
Variations VII, performed at 9 Evenings, was the next to last in John Cage's
series
of indeterminate works that he had begun in 1958, which made increasing use
of electronic
equipment and systems. This DVD documents the only complete performance of
Variations
VII and also presents a stereo audio recording of the full 85 minutes of the
performance.
This rare and historical film is the second in the 9 Evenings series from
Experiments
in Art and Technology and ARTPIX and was produced by Billy Klüver and Julie
Martin
of E.A.T. and directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam.
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Joel S. Bachar
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