Various - Aspen 5 + 6

Label:
Catalog#:
5 + 6
Format:
5 x Flexi-disc, 8"
Box Set
Country:
US
Released:
Nov 1967
Genre:
Electronic, Non-Music
Style:
Interview, Monolog, Spoken Word, Experimental

Tracklist

A Samuel Beckett  -  Text For Nothing #8
    Voice - Jack MacGowran
B Naum Gabo (2) / Noton Pevsner  -  The Realistic Manifesto
    Voice - Naum Gabo (2)
C William S. Burroughs  -  Nova Express (Excerpts)
    Voice - William S. Burroughs
D Alain Robbe-Grillet  -  Now The Shadow Of The Southwest Column
    Voice - Alain Robbe-Grillet
E Morton Feldman  -  The King Of Denmark
    Percussion - Max Neuhaus
F John Cage  -  Fontana Mix-Feed, Nov. 6, 1967
    Electronics - Max Neuhaus
G Merce Cunningham  -  Space, Time And Dance
    Voice - Merce Cunningham
H Merce Cunningham  -  Further Thoughts
    Voice - Merce Cunningham
I Marcel Duchamp  -  The Creative Act
    Voice - Marcel Duchamp
J1 Richard Huelsenbeck  -  Four Poems From Phantastiche Gebete
    Voice - Richard Huelsenbeck
J2 Marcel Duchamp  -  Some Texts From À L'Infinitif
    Voice - Marcel Duchamp

Notes

A including box with 1 book, 5 x 8" flexi disc, 1 reel of 8mm film, 8 boards and 10 printed data. This double issue was guest edited by Brian O'Doherty. Includes contents sheet; book with "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes, "Style and The Representation of Historical Time" by George Kubler, and "The Aesthetics of Silence" by Susan Sontag; 16-2/3 rpm flexi with Samuel Beckett (read by Jack MacGowran) and Naum Gabo / Noton Pevsner; 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Williams S. Burroughs and Alain Robbe-Grillet; Tony Smith "The Maze" [8 boards to be cut and assembled]; 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Morton Feldman and John Cage performed by Max Neuhaus; 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Merce Cunningham; 33-1/3 rpm flexi with Marcel Duchamp and Richard Huelsenbeck; printed data by Douglas Macagy, Michel Butor, Dan Graham, Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner [including 7 loose translucent sheets], Brain O'Doherty, Tony Smith, and Alain Robbe-Grillet; scores by Morton Feldman and John Cage; a reel of b&w regular 8 [which is different from Super 8] film with Hans Richter "Rhythm 21" (1921), Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy "Lightplay: Black-White-Grey" (excerpt) (1932), Robert Morris / Stan VanDerBeek "Site" (excerpt) (1964), and Robert Rauschenberg "Linoleum" (excerpt) (1967); and folder of loose advertisements [Artforum, Bolex, A Checklist of Something Else Press publications now available, and John Cage Silence / A Year From Monday]. contained in two-part white box with minimal printing.
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