| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | May 1992 |
| Instrumentation: | text to be performed by a soloist accompanied by six tapes of traffic sounds recorded in different cities |
| Duration: | about 1 hour |
| Premiere and performer(s): | Cage was supposed to give the first performance on September 20, 1992 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in Germany, but this never took place, due to his death on August 12. |
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| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Text printed in Anarchic Harmony, Schott, Mainz, Germany (pp.152-173) |
| Manuscript: |
| The text should be read using 4 speakers for the live voice and 2 more for each tape. The tapes begin at 2 minutes after the beginning of the reading. Cage gives strict instructions for the placement of the speakers, as well as the balancing of the sounds from the tapes and the reader. The work consists of 17 parts, corresponding to the 17 parts of Ulysses and comprises words from these parts (unlike Muoyce, which uses just letters). The tapes should be recorded in the cities where the Merce Cunningham Dance Company has been touring over the last couple of years. |