This is a score for a solo television performance, involving 20 items to be used during the performance and
4 single-track tapes, 7½" per second and 3 minutes each. The objects and sounds reflect the city of Venice, including
bells of various kinds, boat horns and a toy that meows like a cat.
The work was composed using the Fontana Mix. Together with
Water Walk it was written for and performed in the Italian quiz "Lascia O Raddoppia",
where Cage was asked questions (for 5 weeks!) on the subject of mushrooms. After these weeks he won the jackpot of
8000$ enabling him to buy a van for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and a grand piano. Every week Cage would
perform one of his compositions, including the prepared piano solos from Amores,
Water Walk and Sounds of Venice.
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