Max Neuhaus

Featuring: John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

One of the canonical documents of the New York School in performance. Max Neuhaus - percussionist and, later, one of the defining figures of sound installation - realised five scores that together constitute a survey of the most adventurous percussion writing of the decade: Earle Brown's Four Systems for four amplified cymbals; Morton Feldman's The King of Denmark, to be performed at vanishingly low dynamic levels using only hands and body, no implements; Sylvano Bussotti's Coeur Pour Batteur; and works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage. That Columbia issued this on its main imprint - not a budget subsidiary - registers the moment's specific historical confidence in experimental music as a commercially viable proposition.