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G​.​Maciunas - Music for everyman (1961)

from HORIZONS by LENsemble Vilnius, Vykintas Baltakas

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Lithuanian-born American artist George Maciunas (Jurgis Mačiūnas 1931-1978) is best known as the founder and central coordinator of Fluxus from 1962 until his untimely death in 1978. Fluxus was a global collective of artists, musicians, designers bound by their intermedia sensibility and experimental enlightenment. John Cage, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, George Brecht, Larry Miller, Vytautas Landsbergis, Ben Patterson, Milan Knížák, Ken Friedman, Alison Knowles, Henry Flynt, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, Emmett Williams, and Joseph Beuys were among its members.
The blurring of cultural conventions, which began in the early 20th century with movements such as Futurism, Dada and Surrealism, was continued by Fluxus artists in correspondence with the changes taking place in the sixties. Like the definition of “Flux”, which means ‘to flow’, Fluxus artists sought to reorder the temples of production and reveal “the extraordinary that remains latent in the undisclosed ordinary” during the midst of the dramatic modernist epoch. In the early sixties George Maciunas created a series of radical avant-garde compositions utilizing different scoring systems. Music for Everyman was composed in 1961. The score / empty sheet has to be filled in with chosen sounds and durations by the performers. It results in a work of chaotic, concrete concrete sounds , underpinned by a strict logic and construction.

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from HORIZONS, released June 30, 2021
George Maciunas - Music for everyman (1961)
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