Tracklist
1 | La Monte Young – Composition 1960 #15 to Richard Huelsenbeck (1960) | 4:28 | |
2 | Milan Knízák – DKH Quartet (edit) (1973) | 4:39 | |
3 | Henning Christiansen – Wolfsflöte (1986) | 4:02 | |
4 | Giuseppe Chiari – Metodo teorico e pratico per suonare il violoncello (1962) | 7:45 | |
5 | Milan Knízák – White Process (from the cycle Processes Mainly for the Space of Mind) (1978) | 0:47 | |
6 | Dick Higgins – Emmett William's Ear (1977) | 9:43 | |
7 | Milan Knízák – A Chromatic Scale in Countermovement (1971) | 2:07 | |
8 | Henning Christiansen – Sturmsax (1986) | 3:39 | |
9 | Yoshi Wada – Lip Vibrator (1973) | 2:26 | |
10 | Terry Riley – Shoganigidi #1 (2021) | 3:19 | |
11 | Yasunao Tone – Clapping Piece (1963) | 2:38 | |
12 | Mieko Shiomi – Direction music for a pianist (1990) | 26:02 | |
13 | Dieter Schnebel – An-sätze (1985) | 5:39 | |
14 | La Monte Young – Composition 1960 #7 (1960) | 1:20 | |
15 | Eric Andersen – It isn't bad (2021) | 1:07 | |
16 | Eric Andersen – Opus 1961 (1961) | 5:32 | |
17 | Bengt af Klintberg – Triad No.1 (2021) | 5:15 | |
18 | Mieko Shiomi – Imaginary Garden No.3 (2009) | 7:37 | |
19 | Milan Knízák – Material Events (from the cycle Processes Mainly for the Space of Mind) (1978) | 1:32 | |
20 | Giuseppe Chiari – Gesti sul piano (1962) | 4:38 | |
21 | Öyvind Fahlström – Morgon (1952-55) | 5:33 | |
22 | Philip Corner – A really lovely piece made for & by Agnese (2019) | 3:16 | |
23 | Terry Riley – Ear Piece (1962) | 5:03 | |
24 | Philip Corner – Small pieces of a Fluxus Reality (2018) | 2:28 | |
25 | Benjamin Patterson – Paper Piece (1960) | 6:02 | |
26 | Philip Corner – Toy piano (2012) | 2:22 | |
27 | Sten Hanson – A Living Man (poem) (1971) | 3:54 | |
28 | La Monte Young – 556 for Henry Flynt (1961) | 9:23 | |
29 | Yoko Ono – Conversation Piece (1962) | 8:07 | |
30 | Opening Performance Orchestra – Stolen Symphony (2021) | 21:28 | |
31 | Milan Knízák & Phaerentz & Opening Performance Orchestra – BROKEN REBROKEN edit (2020) | 3:00 |
All in all, there are more than 50 pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments.
This Fluxus edition features (in alphabetical order): Eric Andersen, Ay-O, George Brecht, John Cage, Giancarlo Cardini, Giuseppe Chiari, Henning Christiansen, Philip Corner, Öyvind Fahlström, Ken Friedman, Sten Hanson, Geoffrey Hendricks, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Joe Jones, Bengt af Klintberg, Milan Knízák, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, George Maciunas, Sara Miyamoto, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Opening Performance Orchestra, Benjamin Patterson, Josef Anton Riedl, Terry Riley, Takako Saito, Tomas Schmit, Dieter Schnebel, Mieko Shiomi, Yasunao Tone, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada and La Monte Young.
The musicians and performers Anna Clementi, Agnese Toniutti, Deborah Walker, Werner Durand, Luciano Chessa, Miroslav Beinhauer, Petr Bakla, Nicolas Horvath, Petr Ferenc and Premysl Ondra have played, performed and declaimed the Fluxus pieces, Arditti Quartet and S.E.M. Ensemble provided one piece from their archives.
Milan Knízák, Petr Rezek, Petr Kotík, Olaf Hanel, Eric Andersen, Per Brunskog, Peter van der Meijden, Pavlína Morganová, Natasha Lushetich, Joseph Nechvatal, Natilee Harren, Martin Patrick, Diedrich Diederichsen, Christopher M. Reeves and Hubertus von Amelunxen have written Fluxus-themed texts.
Archivio Conz in Berlin provided access to their extensive Fluxus archives and Edizioni Conz provided coproduction. Ursula and René Block made possible the realisation of John Cage's historical composition Rozart Mix from the Edition Block archive.
The photographic material comes from Marie Knízáková and Milan Knízák's private archive, the German photographer Wolfgang Träger, Archivio Conz's Fluxus archive and Opening Performance Orchestra's digital archive. The cover themes are paintings by Milan Knízák, while the graphic design is the work of Jaroslav Buzek.