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Label:	Kultur – D1401
Format:	DVD
Country:	US
Released:
Genre:	Electronic, Non-Music
Style:	Interview, Modern Classical, Experimental

Tracklist

1		Opening
2		John Cage At Home
3		First Cunningham/Cage Collaboration
4		Early Years With Merce Cunningham
5		Cage Reading From Europeras 1 & 2
6		Four Productions
7		Early Years With John Cage
8		Points In Space
9		Experiments In Sound
10		Sonatas And Interludes
11		Memories And Other Stories
12		Sounds Of N.Y.C.
13		The Cage Percussion Group
14		David Tudor, Composer
15		Jasper Johns, Artistic Advisor
16		Rainforest And Events
17		Martha Graham Dance Company
18		John Cage Diary Reading
19		Stage Space And Other Discussions
20		John Cage On Zen Buddhism
21		Summerspace
22		First Meeting
23		Septet
24		Credits

Credits

Cameraman [Additional Camera] – Robert Dianoux
Cameraman [Assistant Camera] – Gerald Saldo, Myra-Lee Cohen
Cameraman [Lighting Camera] – Matt Williams (9)
Design [Title Design] – Christopher A. Kogler
Edited By [Sound Editor] – Ron Bartella
Effects [Foley & Sound Effects] – Rick Wessler
Featuring – Alvin Lucier, Carolyn Brown (2), Christian Wolff, David Tudor, Edwin Denby, Frank Stella, Gordon Mumma, Irwin Kremen, Jasper Johns, John Cage, La Monte Young, Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, Remy Charrlip, Robert Rauschenberg, Rudolf Nureyev, Viola Farber, Virgil Thomson
Film Director, Film Editor, Photography – Elliot Caplan
Film Editor [Additional Video Editor] – Charlie Bruner, John Rehberger (2)
Film Editor [Associate Editor] – Lana Lin
Mixed By [Re-recording Mixer] – Ken Hahn
Music By – Christian Wolff, Conlon Nancarrow, David Behrman, David Tudor, Erik Satie, Gordon Mumma, John Cage, Martin Kalve, Morton Feldman, Takehisa Kosugi, Toshi Ichiyanagi
Other [Assistant To Elliot Caplan] – Nuria Olivé
Other [Choreography] – Merce Cunningham
Other [Cmx Editor] – Lee Ollerton
Other [Location Manager/paris] – Helena Van Dantzig
Other [Negative Cutter] – Tim Brennan
Other [Post Production Assistant] – Brian Lindstrom, Jenny Evans, Jérome Ayasse
Other [Video] – Doug Blum, Michael F. Stier
Performer – David Behrman, David Tudor, David Vaughan, George Flynn, Gordon Mumma, Gérard Frémy, James Joyce, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Jeanne Kirstein, Joe Heaney, John Cage, Joshua Pierce, Leonard Krech, Margaret Leng Tan, Maro Ajemian, Matt Malloy*, Mell Mercier*, Michael Colgrass, Michael Pugliese, Nils Vigeland, Paddy Glackin, Pat Richter, Paul Price, Peadher Mercier*, Philip Brown, Rob Miller (5), Séamus Ennis*, Takehisa Kosugi, Warren Smith, William Trigg
Producer – Cunningham Dance Foundation
Written By – David Vaughan

Notes

This film documents the fifty-year collaboration between two revolutionary American artists, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Tracing the history of their renowned and enduring joint endeavors, the film explores the artistic and philosophical associations that Cage and Cunningham have had with a wide range of leading figures in the art, literary, dance and music worlds.

Filmmaker Elliot Caplan combines eight years of world tour footage, archival material dating back to the beginning of their careers and interviews with principal figures involved in the Cage/Cunningham collaboration.

Music used includes excerpts of:
John Cage "Concert for Piano and Orchestra"
John Cage "Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music Electronic Version"
John Cage "Music for Piano 4-84"
Conlon Nancarrow "Rhythm Studies #1, 2, 4, 5, 6 for Player Piano"
Christian Wolff "Suite"
Christian Wolff "For 1, 2, or 3 People"
John Cage "Sculptures Musicales"
John Cage "Four Walls"
Gordon Mumma "Mesa"
David Tudor "Fragments"
Bo Nilsson "Rörelser, Slagfigurer, Kvantiteter"
Toshi Ichiyanagi "Sapporo"
Toshi Ichiyanagi "Activities For Orchestra"
David Tudor "Weatherings"
David Behrman "…for nearly an hour…"
David Tudor "Rainforest"
John Cage "Roaratorio"
Morton Feldman "Ixion"
Erik Satie "Trois morceaux en forme de poire"
John Cage "Totem Ancestor"
James Joyce reading Finnegans Wake
John Cage "Imaginary Landscape No. 1"
John Cage "Suite for Toy Piano"
John Cage "Credo In Us"
John Cage "Winter Music"
John Cage "Bacchanale"
John Cage "Sonatas and Interludes"
John Cage "Cheap Imitation"
John Cage "Variations V"
Takehisa Kosugi, Rob Miller, Michael Pugliese, David Tudor "Event Music"
John Cage "Stories from Lecture on Indeterminacy"
John Cage "Music for Marcel Duchamp"
John Cage "She Is Asleep"

Total time: 95:00