This script for Kaprow’s recorded speech offers a trenchant critique of the idea that humans are capable of communicating information seamlessly and immediately, like machines. He asks: How can one access another person’s experience except through highly formulaic phrases and gestures, which ipso facto falsify that experience? Kaprow’s paradoxical conclusion that “the only ‘communication’ that interests me is the communication of non-communication” resonates with many of his activities of the 1970s.
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| Title | “Recorded Speech I” for Communication |
| Maker | Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006) |
| Date | 1958 |
| Type | score |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 5, folder 2 |
Cite
Kaprow, Allan. “Recorded Speech I” for
Communication, 1958. Getty Research
Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 5, folder
2. 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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