Music Of The Absurd
October, 1964
As he faces the audience, the artist is at the focus of a battery of eight tape recorders, with an attendant by each. At a signal, he begins to speak. So do all eight tape recorders. Each one is playing a speech in his voice--but all the speeches are different, and in addition none of them is the speech the live artist himself is delivering.Let us pause here, dear friends and gentle hearts, and ask: What is going on here? Is the artist actually a mad-man addressing an audience of psychiatrists?...
