A Chance Operation - The John Cage Tribute

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Release Date: 1993

Label: Koch International Classics

Comes with 88-page booklet. Track durations are not printed on the release.

1-01/02: Produced from a live performance for Radio Kronos.
1-03/05: Recorded at White Noise West, Redondo Beach, California and at Time Code Studios, Los Angeles, California.
1-06/14: Recorded 1993 at Baby Monster Studios, NY.
1-15/18: Recorded at Harvest Studios, Middleburg Heights, Ohio.
1-19/26: Recorded at Nordine Group Studio June 1993.
1-27/40: Recorded at Mastersound Astoria Studios, Astoria, New York.
1-49/52: Recorded at KAB Studios, New York, mixed at Axis Studios, New York.
1-53/63: Engineered at the Sound Situation in Glastonbury, Connecticut, post-production at the composer's studio, gaLarry, Denton, Texas.
1-64/69: Recorded at the Joyce Theatre, New York, New York, on March 17, 1988.
1-70/98: The track is divided in three parts: 1st Movement: Darkness, 2nd Movement: Mommy, Where Are You?, 3rd Movement: Light. Recorded at Evergreen Recording, NYC, November 1986 - January 1987, mixed at Quad Recording, NYC, July 1993.
2-19/26: The track is divided in four parts: 1. To Begin, 2. Story ("Once Upon A Time The World Was Round And You Could Go On It Around And Around." - Gertrude Stein), 3. Melody, 4. End.
2-27/32: Recorded at the Bell Telephone Laboratories April 1963, remastered at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College.
2-56/63: Originally produced for the FluxAttitudes Exhibit at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
2-64/78: Recorded in a live performance for the Catskill Conservatory at the Windfall Dutch Barn in Salt Springville, NY on August 23, 1985.
2-82/85: Recorded outside John Cage's apartment.

The tracks are divided in several small pieces. The idea behind this was that you can use the random play button on your CD player to create hundreds of versions to listen to the whole CDs.

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