Untitled (1988)

Album title: Music For Merce Cunningham / Untitled / Dialects
Title: Untitled (Track 02)
Publisher: Rotation Art Press, USA
Date: rec. 1988, publ. 1998
Medium: red record 30 cm + insert
Edition: 200 numbered

The untitled piece by Japanese artist and musician Takehisa Kosugi, heard here, was written while he was a musical director for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He recorded the piece in 1988 during a performance in Berlin for Radio 100, working with distorted voices, electronic sound generators and effects devices, percussion and violin. The composition is related to Music For Merce Cunningham, recorded together with David Tudor and Michael Pugliese, both pieces as well as the piece Dialects by David Tudor, were released together on one record. 10 copies of a text pressing, as well as 200 copies on red vinyl, are in circulation.

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