| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Spring 1967 |
| Instrumentation: | For an invited public, each of them providing a tape-loop. |
| Duration: | indeterminate |
| Premiere and performer(s): | Newport, Kentucky, Spring 1967 |
| Dedicated to: | ? |
| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | --- (1 score and 1 tape obtainable as rental material from C.F.Peters) |
| Manuscript: | at C.F.Peters (?) |
| As Cage describes in For the Birds, this composition resembles theatre more than music. The basic
idea was that people were invited to dine in a restaurant, which was a yacht, anchored in the Ohio River, in Newport,
Kentucky. Each guest was asked to bring a tape loop. Without a tape loop, people were not allowed to enter, but they
could prepare one on the spot, using the equipment provided by the composer. Nothing was specified, concerning the tapes, just anything was possible. In the restaurant everything had been arranged to allow the tapes to circulate everywhere, around the tables and above. |