GEORGE MACIUNAS 2-LP FLUXUS-SOUND POETRY-EXPERIMENTAL

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FESTIVAL D'INTERVENTIONS IN MEMORIAM GEORGE MACIUNAS 2-LP SET 

Edition Intervention

Rare sound document from the fluxus / sound art / conceptual / sound poetry festival "Interventions" in memory of the legendary George Maciunas. Very small mid-80's pressing.

Some info on the release:  Original canadian pressing from the 80's featuring pieces from artists such as Dick Higgins, Malcolm Goldstein, Alison Knowles, sound poets Pierre Arcand and collective the Four Horsemen, plus a long list of conceptual artists, painters, poets, musicians. Order of each track is the order of appearence on scene. "We have respected the essence of the performances by conserving a part of approximately four minutes for each "intervention". We have avoided at the maximum any montage and the selection is conform to what has happened in each case on the scene. Do not appear on the scene the "interventions" of Louis Haché and Diane-Jocelyne Côté: it was impossible to perceive by sound their presence. Des exterior actions of Robert Deschênes, Monty Cantsin and Dena Davida can not be found on the record, again for technical reasons."

George Maciunas was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He was a founding member of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Other leading members brought together by this movement included Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht and Nam June Paik. He is most famous for organising and performing early happenings and for assembling a series of highly influential artists' multiples.

Primarily influenced by John Cage's Experimental Music Composition classes at the New School for Social Research and an emerging interest in eastern philosophy, a number of avant-garde artists in New York were beginning to run parallel and competing happenings at the beginning of the 1960s. As well as Maciunas' concerts at the AG Gallery, March 1961 featuring music and events by Maciunas himself, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jackson Mac Low and Higgins, the two other most important precursors to fluxus were La Monte Young's influential series of performances in the Chambers Street loft of Yoko Ono and Ichiyanagi Toshi, in 1961 involving Henry Flynt, La Monte Young, Joseph Byrd & Robert Morris amongst others; and Robert Watts and George Brecht's Yam Festival, spring 1963 at Rutgers University and New York, which included a series of mail art event scores and performances by John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ay O and Dick Higgins. All of these artists and more eventually became associated with fluxus, 'either through their collaboration on multiples, inclusion in anthologies, or participation in Fluxus concerts'.

Other key influences noted by Maciunas included the happenings that had occurred at the Black Mountain College involving Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham and others; the Nouveaux Réalistes; the Concept Art of Henry Flynt and Marcel Duchamp's notion of the readymade. 

Condition: Vinyls lie in mint condition, crystal this is an unplayed stock copy. Cover lies in excellent condition.

Tracklist

9 Août '84 A1 Trio Bi-Clan  -  Jos Ventru: B.D. Musicale 4:02     Performer - André Papathomas, Mike Tremblay, Robert Gélinas, Robert Leriche A2 Dick Higgins  -  Constellations No12 / Série 1959-1980-1984 3:01 A3 Marie Lévesque  -  Bris-En-Thème 3:28     Performer - Marie Lévesque, Pierre Ménard, Pierre Tanguay A4 Clive Robertson  -  Rhetoric On The Run 3:07 A5 Jacques Doyon  -  Pièce Pour Un Porte-Manteaux, 3 Magnétophones Et Une Voix 4:46 B1 Allison Knowles Et Malcolm Goldstein  -  Natural Assemblage / Le Vrai Corbeau 1984 5:05 B2 Hervé Fischer  -  Une Petite Histoire En Hommage À Maciunas 2:07 B3 Pierre-André Arcand  -  Une Boucle Où Ça S'Accumule 1:07 B4 Les Salopettes -  Zambouie-Zambie 3:35     Performer - Bruno Tanguay, Maxim Rioux, Picky B5 4 Horsemen, The  -  Totally New Improvisation 3:37     Performer - Paul Dutton, Rafael Barreto Rivera, Steve Mc Caffery, bp Nichol B6 Geneviève Letarte  -  Ritournelle     Performer - André Pappathomas, Mighty Tremblay, Serge Boisvert   16 Août '84 C1 Bonnie Sherk  -  Twelve Ways To The Tao 4:00 C2 Micheline Fournier Et Patrick Altman  -  Cent-Têtes 2:53 C3 Alain-Martin Richard  -  La Mémoire Du Corps 4:23     Performer [Melbas, Pop-sicle] - Jacques Doyon, Jean-Claude St-Hilaire C4 Richard Martel  -  Européo-Kunstruction 4:30     Voice, Performer [Toothbrush] - Guy Durand, Mona Desgagnés C5 Jean-Claude Gagnon  -  Traitement De Texte 5:07     Performer [Beurkophone] - Jean-Claude Gagnon C6 Jean-Claude St-Hilaire Et Marie Lamoureux  -  Es La Memoria Una Estrategia Del Tiempo? 3:17 D1 John Fekner  -  Vidéo-Jello 3:29     Performer - Brigitte D2 Monty Cantsin  -  Baby, Oh Baby, Je Ne Sais Plus Quoi Faire, Tu Es Tellement Réactionnaire 4:39     Music By - Tristan Renaud D3 Réjean Dugal  -  Sculpturius 3:40 D4 Jean-Yves Fréchette / Éric Henry  -  Récupération 4:27 D5 Alexis Goufas  -  Mr. Clock 3:34

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