Michael Snow
- New York Eye and Ear Control
1964
RIP Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933-2022)
Toshio Matsumoto
- Everything Visible Is Empty 色即是空
1975
Music: Toshi Ichiyanagi
Magazine advertisement of A Page of Madness (1926) directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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Yutaka Matsuzawa
- All human beings! Let’s Vanish, Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Gate, Gate, Anti-Civilization Committee
1966
Yutaka Matsuzawa
- Invitation to Psi Zashiki Room
1963
Yutaka Matsuzawa
- My Own Death
1970
Yutaka Matsuzawa Performing with “Banner of Vanishing” (All human beings! Let’s Vanish, Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Gate, Gate, Anti-Civilization Committee)" (1966) at Misayama Shrine, Shimo Suwa, Japan, 1970
Masao Adachi participates in Hi-Red Center’s Imperial Hotel Body: Shelter Plan, January 1964.
Takehisa Kosugi participates in Hi-Red Center’s Imperial Hotel Body: Shelter Plan, January 1964.
Not a moment
of celebration,
but celebration
of the moment.
--
If in history we have known music through
the filter of graphic notation, it is
because we worshipped images. “Music”
itself is an image, of time as structure.
Images run our lives.
Images are not dead; they live and speak.
But their life is a cycle of force,
and their speech is one of command.
They will be worshipped.
Notation becomes superfluous when images
are put away. Only then will people know
what to do without having to be told.
--
Instrumental music and interpretation as they are
normally practiced are merely a crude form of
programming. Scores, etc., are a primitive forerunner
of punched cards. The performer today
never studies the score anyhow; he is only a skilled
worker brought in to translate coded information
into sound. If we want to find an alternative we
have to eliminate the score altogether, or else make
it so simple that it can be committed to memory.
--
Commandments to Myself:
Don’t make images: create meaningful rituals.
Don’t construct time: interpret the moment.
Don’t command obedience: welcome the intruder.
Don’t occupy space: identify with it.
Don’t forge ecstasy: return to zero.
Don’t play possibilities: do the necessary.
Don’t wear masks: rejoice in nakedness.
Don’t practice magic: be automatic, be nothing.
Make music with whatever means are available.
Frederic Rzewski, 1967
Cornelius Cardew
- from the graphic score of “Treatise“
1963-67
Minoru Hirata
- Yasunao Tone presenting a Tone Award to a Crow at Jury Event, at Naiqua Gallery
1964
「 武満徹 ← 1930 … ∞ 」
（1964）
装丁：粟津潔
David Shrigley
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