One7



Category: Musical composition
Dated: Fall 1990
Instrumentation: For any way of producing sounds
Duration: 30'
Premiere and performer(s): Late 1990 or January 9, 1991, performed by John Cage
Dedicated to: for Pauline Oliveros on her sixtieth birthday
Choreography: ---
Published: Not published seperately, but incorporated in Four6.
Manuscript: see: Four6


in Four 6 the performers choose twelve different sounds each, with fixed amplitude, overtone structure etc., and play within the flexible time brackets.
The first players part may be performed as a solo, thus entitled One7.

Sources: Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; New York Public Library online catalog; Rob Haskins: "An Anarchic Society of Sounds": The Number Pieces of John Cage