Jackson Mac Low

Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004) was an American poet, composer and performance artist who used chance operations and other non-intentional methods to make poems, plays and music. He studied with John Cage at the New School in the late 1950s, took part in early Fluxus and co-published An Anthology of Chance Operations. He is known for his performance scores for voices and instruments, among them the Gathas and the Vocabularies. Jackson Mac Low trained in piano, violin and harmony as a child in Chicago, later studied composition with Erich Katz and voice with Pandit Pran Nath.