John Cage: Aria ( Fontana Mix) (1958)

John Cage (19121992): Aria (Fontana Mix) per voce e nastro magnetico (1958). Dedicata a Cathy Berberian. Cathy Berberian, voce. Cover image. painting by Blinky Palermo. The score consists of 20 pages of music, each page being sufficient for 30 seconds in performance. Pages may be performed over longer or shorter timeranges to create a program of a determined timelength. The Aria may be performed as a solo, or with Fontana Mix and, or with ahy parts of the Concert for Piano and Orchestra. The text employs vowels and consonants and words from Armenian, Russian, Italian, French and English. The notation consists basically of wavy lines in different colors and 16 black squares denoting non musical vocal noises. The colors denote different singing styles, to be determined by the singer. Cage used Fontana Mix as a composing means to create this Aria. (fonte: web). The music published in our channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and