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Title Drip Music
Maker George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
Date ca. 1970
Medium photograph
Type photograph

George Brecht often made sculptural realizations of his event scores, as in this iteration, an adjustable dripping faucet designed for the garden of German collectors Wolfgang and Ute Feelisch. Brecht once remarked, “Once in a while I would make an object first and then make a card later . . . . I don’t feel very much one way or the other since every object is an event anyway and every event has [an] object-like quality” (Michael Nyman, “An Interview with George Brecht” [1976], in Henry Martin, An Introduction to George Brecht’s Book of the Tumbler on Fire [Milan: Multhipla, 1978], 106).

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Brecht, George. Drip Music, ca. 1970. . 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. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/366/.