John Cage: Aria (Fontana Mix) (1958)

John Cage (1912-1992): 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 time-ranges to create a program of a determined time-length. 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 not commercial. This within a program shared to study classic educational music of the 1900’s (mostly Italian) which involves thousands of people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform us immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be our care to remove immediately the video accordingly. Your collaboration will be appreciated.