| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | 1978 |
| Instrumentation: | for performer(s) or listener(s) or record maker(s) |
| Duration: | indeterminate |
| Premiere and performer(s): | before or in May 1978 |
| Dedicated to: | |
| Choreography: | |
| Published: | Edition Peters 66761 © 1978 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Score (typescript with holographic emendations in pencil - 20 lvs. Folder 568); Draft of list of addresses (copyist's manuscript in pencil - 13 p. Folder 1013); Sketches (holograph in pencil - 7 p. Folder 567); Atlas with notes by Cage (in pencil - 68 p.), all in New York Public Library; Map with notes (1 lf.) at Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. |
| The concept of this work is to go to the places (in Chicago or any other city, by assembling a chance determined list of 427 addresses,
grouping them in 10 groups of 2, 61 groups of 3 and 56 groups of 4) and either listen to, perform at and/or make a recording of the sounds at those
locations
Sources: Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; Richard Kostelanetz: John Cage writer - Previously uncollected pieces; New York Public Library online catalog |