| Title | Benjamin Patterson, Hans G. Helms, Ursula Kagel, Khris Helms, David Tudor, and others performing George Brecht’s Card-Piece for Voice (1959) as part of the “Contre-Festival,” organized during the IGNM-Weltmusikfestes, Atelier Mary Bauermeister, Cologne, Germany |
| Maker | Manfred Leve (German, 1936–2012) |
| Date | 15 June 1960 |
| Type | photograph |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 159 |
George Brecht’s Card-Piece for Voice (1959) was performed in Mary Bauermeister’s studio by an ensemble gathered around a grand piano, which served as a provisional playing table. David Tudor can be seen at right, dealing from an ordinary deck of playing cards used to cue performers’ vocalizations.
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Leve, Manfred. Benjamin Patterson, Hans G. Helms,
Ursula Kagel, Khris Helms, David Tudor, and others
performing George Brecht’s
Card-Piece for Voice (1959) as part of the
“Contre-Festival,” organized during the
IGNM-Weltmusikfestes, Atelier Mary Bauermeister,
Cologne, Germany, 15 June 1960. Getty Research
Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 159. In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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