Inspired by Cage’s pioneering mixed-media events of the 1950s, Fluxus was an informal group of composers, artists and perfomers founded by the Lithuanian-born artist and architect George Maciunas (1931–78). After its first concert in Wiesbaden (1962), it remained active in Europe and the US intermittently until Maciunas’s death. The group also included the composers La Monte Young (b. 1935), ...
works of the 1950s had required specialist performers, many composers turned to more open, ‘democratic’ kinds of music-making, based on improvisation, collaboration or both. While the Fluxus movement took up the threads of the Dadaist heritage, the Scratch Orchestra, founded in London by Cornelius Cardew (1936–81), brought together amateurs and professionals under the banner of ...
conventional) cymbals, rosewood castanets, woodblocks, claves, xylophone bars and spruce resonance boxes of bar instruments. Each type of instrument was built in three sizes. Influences | Fluxus | Contemporary | Classical ...
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