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14 de oct. de 2013 · Twelve sound-sensitive electronic poles dot the stage; sound is triggered by the dancers' movements and then altered or delayed by the musicians. "Variations V" predates Cunningham's...
Variations V. Merce Cunningham. First composed and performed in 1965, Variations V is a true testament to 1960's experiments with "intermedia"—a coexistence and cutting across of artistic genres that profoundly informed Cunningham's choreographic practice.
Starts at 04:47A large mixed-media piece involving the use of film and also, when possible, of video images distorted by Nam June Paik. John Cage also decide...
Max Mathews designed the mix to control volume, tone, and distribution of sounds among the six speakers in the hall. In 1966, Norddeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg and Sveriges Radio Television produced a 50-minute film-version of Variations V, directed by Arne Arnbom. Dedicatee(s) Mary Sisler: Publication Peters Edition EP 6799
Variations V, Cunningham's ambitious multi-media collaboration with John Cage, is a prime manifestation of the tremendous creative rebellion that brought film, video, pop culture appropriation, technology, performance, and avant-garde music together in one loudly active space.
Variations is a series of works by the American composer John Cage. A number of the pieces in the series are seminal examples of indeterminate music, others are happenings: performance pieces executed according to the score.
«Variations V» John Cage made «Variations V» in 1965 for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement.
