Les chants de Maldoror pulvérises par l'assistance même



Category: Musical composition
Dated: New York City, Decenber 1971
Instrumentation: 200 pages pour un public francophone de pas plus de 200 personnes (200 pages for a francophone public of not more than 200 persons)
Duration: indeterminate
Premiere and performer(s):
Dedicated to: --- (?)
Choreography: ---
Published: Edition Peters 6809 © 1972 by Henmar Press
Manuscript: Instruction page (in French), draft of English version (typescript, signed, with holgraphic emendations in black ink and red felt pen - 1 p. Folder 419); Drafts of instructions in English and French translation (holograph, in English, in black pen with corrections in red felt pen. French translation in pencil with corrections in black ink in unidentified hand - 4 p. Folder 420); Score (typescript - 1 p. Folder 421); Instructions for replication of manuscript for publication (1 envelope. Folder 422), all in New York Public Library


200 pages of text, to be read by a group of people of 200 or less, the rules of reading them to be determined by the performers as a group. Text after Comte de Lautréamont (1846-1870), where on each page words are omitted from the original text.

Sources: James Pritchett: The Music of John Cage; David Revill: The Roaring Silence; New York Public Library online catalog