Williams Mix +

While early electro-acoustic tape pieces usually resulted in the studio during the work process, Cage created a score beforehand. He established all necessary musical parameters with the help of chance operations. He needed more than half a year in order to realise the 4’15 minute eight channel piece. It consists of cut pieces of audiotape that are meticulously put together. To date, John Cage has remained the only artist to put together a tape piece based on a score. A new interpretation of the recording can be experienced at MaerzMusik for the first time. This new interpretation stretches Williams Mix to 32 minutes, with 600 different sounds being used that were produced by Werner Dafeldecker and Valerio Tricoli.
In addition, the work The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar by Morton Feldman is reconstructed by the guitarist Seth Josel. A further highlight of the evening at Berghain is the staging of Imaginary Landscape No. 5, an audiotape work by John Cage for which 42 phonographic recordings were used. Cage primarily used jazz LPs in this 1952 version.