One Wall — for John Cage

2007 | Installation

Speakers, Conduit, Cement, and Custom Electronics

2007 | Installation

Speakers, Conduit, Cement, and Custom Electronics

Premiered on occasion of John Cage’s 95th birthday in a realization assisted by Mike Rugnetta and Guy Snover

First Shown: The Kitchen, New York City - September, 2007

One Wall is a score of chance-determined single tones, each from an independent source (electronic or otherwise) to be presented in one plane of a space.

Taken as a minimalization of John Cage's expansive and idiosyncratic piano work Four Walls, the work was premiered on the occasion of Cage's 95 birthday as a pre-concert installation for a celebration produced by Avant Media at The Kitchen. The first showing of the work consisted of common household items, cast in concrete, supporting custom speakers designed to exist along a single plane in space, and to point at a single point.


Presentation History
Cage: 102 | New York City : September 5th, 2014
Fifth Avant Music Festival | New York City : February 21 - March 1, 2014
Performa 13 | New York City : November 16th, 2013
Cage100 Party Pieces | New York City : October 17th, 2013
101 Tones for John Cage | Online : September 5th, 2013
Fourth Avant Music Festival | New York City : February 15 - 23, 2013
49waltzes.com | Online : September 5th, 2012
John Cage: A Portrait in 5 Parts | New York City : March 8th, 2012
Third Avant Music Festival | New York City : February 10 - 27, 2012
Second Avant Music Festival | New York City : February 11 - 19, 2011
John Cage at 95 | New York City : September 5th, 2007
Music? Yes. | Boulder, Colorado : May 3 - 4, 2000