George Brecht

George Brecht (1926-2008) was an American artist and composer, born George MacDiarmid in New York, and a core member of Fluxus. Trained as a chemist, he worked in industrial research until 1965. In John Cage's experimental composition classes at the New School he developed the event score, a short written instruction for an action or a sound. These pieces, often printed on small cards and mailed to friends, became central to Fluxus. One of Brecht's most performed events is Drip Music, in which water falls from a source into an empty vessel.