Cage, John. (1912–1992). Fontana Mix - SIGNED SILKSCREEN AND COLLAGE. Screenprint on Arches paper, with celluloid (mylar) templates printed in black ink, hand signed & numbered by Cage in the lower blank margin, number 54 of 97 impressions. Printed in 1981. Image Size 50.0 x 69.0 cm; Paper Size 56.0 x 76.0 cm, framed to 27 x 33 inches. Some staining along the edges and on the verso, otherwise fine.
John Cage's 1958 title Fontana Mix is attached to two related, but historically distinctly separate, entities, the score published by C.F. Peters (1960) and the four multi-channel tapes Cage prepared from it at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan. The score Cage created for Fontana Mix consists of 20 sheets, ten transparencies inscribed with points (or dots), a single transparency bearing a straight line and ten plain white sheets with squiggly lines. By means of an included graph and a straight line, the performer uses the sheets in combination as a "tool" to assemble a realization of Fontana Mix. Coordinate points drawn from the transparencies determine the class of each tape sound, inches of tape used, its volume, timbre, mixing, and other elements. Cage once described the score of Fontana Mix as "a camera from which anyone can take a photograph."
John Cage's 1958 title Fontana Mix is attached to two related, but historically distinctly separate, entities, the score published by C.F. Peters (1960) and the four multi-channel tapes Cage prepared from it at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan. The score Cage created for Fontana Mix consists of 20 sheets, ten transparencies inscribed with points (or dots), a single transparency bearing a straight line and ten plain white sheets with squiggly lines. By means of an included graph and a straight line, the performer uses the sheets in combination as a "tool" to assemble a realization of Fontana Mix. Coordinate points drawn from the transparencies determine the class of each tape sound, inches of tape used, its volume, timbre, mixing, and other elements. Cage once described the score of Fontana Mix as "a camera from which anyone can take a photograph."
Cage, John. (1912–1992). Fontana Mix - SIGNED SILKSCREEN AND COLLAGE. Screenprint on Arches paper, with celluloid (mylar) templates printed in black ink, hand signed & numbered by Cage in the lower blank margin, number 54 of 97 impressions. Printed in 1981. Image Size 50.0 x 69.0 cm; Paper Size 56.0 x 76.0 cm, framed to 27 x 33 inches. Some staining along the edges and on the verso, otherwise fine.
John Cage's 1958 title Fontana Mix is attached to two related, but historically distinctly separate, entities, the score published by C.F. Peters (1960) and the four multi-channel tapes Cage prepared from it at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan. The score Cage created for Fontana Mix consists of 20 sheets, ten transparencies inscribed with points (or dots), a single transparency bearing a straight line and ten plain white sheets with squiggly lines. By means of an included graph and a straight line, the performer uses the sheets in combination as a "tool" to assemble a realization of Fontana Mix. Coordinate points drawn from the transparencies determine the class of each tape sound, inches of tape used, its volume, timbre, mixing, and other elements. Cage once described the score of Fontana Mix as "a camera from which anyone can take a photograph."
John Cage's 1958 title Fontana Mix is attached to two related, but historically distinctly separate, entities, the score published by C.F. Peters (1960) and the four multi-channel tapes Cage prepared from it at the Studio di Fonologia in Milan. The score Cage created for Fontana Mix consists of 20 sheets, ten transparencies inscribed with points (or dots), a single transparency bearing a straight line and ten plain white sheets with squiggly lines. By means of an included graph and a straight line, the performer uses the sheets in combination as a "tool" to assemble a realization of Fontana Mix. Coordinate points drawn from the transparencies determine the class of each tape sound, inches of tape used, its volume, timbre, mixing, and other elements. Cage once described the score of Fontana Mix as "a camera from which anyone can take a photograph."