condition (record/cover): NM / EX (smal tag on back)

A Turnabout budget LP pairing two of the most consequential pieces of mid-sixties experimental music. Side A is John Cage's Variations II (1961), realised by David Tudor at the Studio di Fonologia Musicale of RAI Milan in 1963: Tudor's electronic version of the indeterminate score for any number of performers using any sounds, transformed into a thirty-minute tape work of striking density and silence. Side B is Luciano Berio's Visage (1961), the eight-track tape piece composed at the same RAI studio with Cathy Berberian's voice as sole source material, processed through every technique the studio had developed since Bruno Maderna's tenure.

The LP is one of the early Vox/Turnabout stereo releases in the Music of Our Time category, the budget series that brought European experimental tape works to American collectors at one-third the price of the Mainstream or DG Avant-Garde equivalents. The pairing is now considered canonical for the encounter between American indeterminacy and Italian electronic music; both pieces remain in the repertoire.