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This is a review of David Tudor’s concert in Venice of works by a group of Darmstadt-associated composers: Henry Posseur, Franco Evangelisti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Frank Amey, John Cage, and Sylvano Bussotti (who is represented by his Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor). The review, which is largely informative, notes that organizing three concerts in Italy (the other two were in Padua and Rome) was a considerable challenge. It describes Bussotti and Evangelisti as holding “extremely advanced positions” (posizioni estremamente avanzate), adding that Bussotti had extended Cage’s use of indeterminacy into the realm of graphic notation in No. 3 of Pieces in what reviewer Lodovico Mamprin describes as a “a desperate search for order” (una disperata ricerca di ordine).