Product Details

• Actors: John Cage, David Tudor
• Directors: Barbro Schultz Lundestam, Julie Martin
• Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: ArtPix, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)
• DVD Release Date: May 27, 2008
• Run Time: 41 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0015U0QNA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,231 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Review 1:    Variations VII was originally performed at a nine day performance art event in New York.  The score looks more like an engineering schematic than anything musical.  Cage used a series of electronic systems, combined with telephone lines and household appliances, to create a sonic soup that must have sounded unimaginable at the time.  …for those who spend their time in the musical deep end, it’s a brilliant piece, and any footage we can get is worth having….not only do we get  rare footage of John Cage performing one of his most interesting pieces, but there’s a documentary on how it was done, and the full audio recording of the piece.  For those who enjoy John Cage, this is a disc worth checking out.

 

Source 1:     Daniel Hirshleifer/ DVD Talk/07/04/2008

Product Description

John Cage’s Variations VII was performed at 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering in October 1966 at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. Variations VII was the next to last in Cage’s series of indeterminate works that he had begin in 1958, which made increasing use of electronic equipment and systems. This DVD documents the only complete performance of Variations VII and also presents a stereo audio recording of the full 85 minutes of the performance. The edited archival footage of the performance is followed by interviews with participants which include artists and composers as well as engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories who were the collaborators for the 9 Evenings as brought together by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver.

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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More John Cage--Variations 7--Awesome stuff, April 25, 2008

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This review is from: John Cage: Variations VII/ 9 Evenings in Theatre & Engineering (DVD)

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