Manufacturing Intellect | The Rise of Experimental Music in the 1960s documentary (2005) @ManufacturingIntellect | Uploaded 5 years ago | Updated 4 hours ago
"Here's a Piano I Prepared Earlier" is a documentary film about experimental classical music in the 1960s. The program focuses on composers such as John Cage, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Cornelius Cardew and their musical experiments and developments and how they influenced performers, audiences and composers from all backgrounds and genres.

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It showed how John Cage prepared pianos, and what he found worked and didn’t, mainly due to the stability of the items added to the strings. Cardew’s work with ‘The Scratch Band’ was also interesting and some of the innovation’s they came up with. They also showed an orchestra of varying ability playing works from the established repertoire, but with notes played incorrectly and out of sequence, thus producing a barely recognizable reproduction of familiar works.

Perhaps most interesting in the field of chance music was a waltz composed by the throw of dice based on a system proposed by Mozart, where numbers related to short motifs of music. They played the short piece at the end, thus creating a work of chance in part created by one of the most brilliant musical minds that ever lived, nearly 200 years before indeterminacy.