[silence] More Atlas Eclipticalis

[Ingvar Loco Nordin]

Petr Kotik sent me his response on the brewing Atlas E discussion  
privately, but also told me it was ok to post it anywhere, so I'll  
post it to the Silence list:

> I really don’t have the time (or wish) to go into lecturing on  
> Atlas. The so called CONDUCTOR SCORE Peters No. 6782 is not a  
> score, it is a set of instruction for the conductor, which – to my  
> knowledge – was never used, certainly not by Cage, or everyone  
> working with him. Bear in mind that Cages ideas in that time (1956  
> – 1961) were so new, so untested and and they include few aspects,  
> which were later abolished as impractical or unnecessary, as praxis  
> continued leading to more familiarity with the material through  
> performance experiences. I met Cage in 1964 to perform Atlas – a 3- 
> hour version with David Tudor, Cage, Cerha, and two more people in  
> Vienna. That was for the Cunningham’s Event #1 at the Modern Art  
> Museum there. Cage and I worked together for the next 28 years and  
> – by a coincidence – our last project was the first complete 2-hour  
> version of Atlas at Carnegie Hall in 1992 (our last meeting  
> regarding this project was one week before he died).
>
> I am sick and tired (I am not alone, Christian Wolff feels the same  
> way) of encountering presentations of Cage done in almost total  
> ignorance of the work.
>
> There are two recordings I have done – one is on Wergo WER 6215-2.  
> This is a “composite” recording, where we only had one third of the  
> orchestra and recorded the whole material 3 times (It was done in  
> March 1992 and Cage was there – he had to be practically dragged  
> over as he hated recorded music and recordings in general). After I  
> mixed the three recordings into one complete 86-piece orchestra  
> performance and heard it for the first time -- the sound with 3  
> harps, 3 tubas, 3 sets of timpani (!) 5 horns, etc., I was so  
> taken, that it gave me the impetus to organize a real 86-piece  
> orchestra for a Carnegie Hall performance next October as a 80th  
> birthday gift to Cage (this was the start of the SEM Orchestra).  
> Fortunately, I had a financial backing here in New York to make it  
> possible. When Cage died in August, I called David Tudor to ask him  
> to perform the Carnegie Hall concert with us and expected him to  
> say “Petr – I didn’t play the piano in public for 20 years I cannot  
> do it.” To my big surprise, David said immediately yes! [why did  
> Tudor stopped performing on the piano is another matter, which I  
> discovered in the course of our collaborations in the last years of  
> his life]. So we did it and an invitation from Berlin came right  
> afterwards to do it also there in May, 1993. That performance (also  
> with Tudor, this time 2-and-half hour version) at the Konzerthaus  
> in Berlin was recorded and released at Aphodel (4-Cds together with  
> 103).
>
> Greetings,
> PK


/Ingvar Loco Nordin

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