John Cage - Variations IV

In 1964 John Cage and David Tudor set up shop in Los Angeles' Feigen-Palmer Gallery, equipping two rooms with complete sound systems (recording and mixing equipment, numerous radios, tape players and record decks to be used by carefully supervised operators) and placing microphones strategically inside and outside the building (one was suspended above the bar, another out in the street to catch the passing traffic), before embarking on a monumental six-hour performance of Cage's "Variations IV," excerpts from which were edited and mixed down to stereo for Everest, resulting in an album that proved so scandalously successful that a second volume was subsequently released. Read More