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579

Title Tape Score
Maker Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
Date 1957
Type score
Location Getty Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 4, folder 7

By 1957, Kaprow had already begun to experiment with analog synthesizers and with sound collage on magnetic tape. In his first environments from 1958, Kaprow played tapes on multiple tape recorders that he positioned in different parts of the gallery in order to create an immersive, and sometimes deliberately irritating, sound field. According to Kaprow’s recollection, it was his early tape practice that led him to seek out John Cage as a teacher.

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Kaprow, Allan. Tape Score, 1957. Getty Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 4, folder 7. 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/579/.

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