This volume of the Cage edition gathers works for a speaking percussionist, with percussionist Bonnie Whiting at the centre. The longest piece is 51’15.657” for a speaking percussionist, in a realization by Whiting, joined by A Flower, The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs and Music for Two (By One), also in Whiting’s realization.
The programme also includes a work by Allen Otte, Connecting Egypt to Madison through Columbus Ohio, Cage, and the History of the American Labor Movement, in his own realization, with Otte on voice, prepared piano and percussion.
The Blu-ray presents the full video of every work, with PCM audio, and adds a 73-minute video interview in which Whiting and Otte discuss Cage, his processes, the works and how they assembled them.
Bonnie Whiting, voice and percussion
Allen Otte, voice, prepared piano, percussion
