Sounday
(or 'Toneday')




Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1977-78
Instrumentation: Radio event for violin, piano, voice and nine musicians with amplified plant materials and with amplified water-filled conch-shells, one musician blowing a conch-shell and electronic tape
Duration: 10 hours (first performance)
Premiere and performer(s): June 15, 1978 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, performed by John Cage, Grete Sultan, Paul Zukofsky and Demetrio Stratos
Dedicated to: Music written for Grete Sultan and Paul Zukofsky
Choreography: ---
Published: ---
Manuscript: Draft for the instructions (hologrpah in pencil - 1 p. on 2 lvs. Folder 1011); Plan of the entire work holograph (photocopy) in ink - 5 p. Folder 1012), both in New York Public Library


This event incorporates Child of Tree, Branches, Inlets and Etudes Australes. It was written for KRO (Catholic Radio Station) in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

Sources: David Revill: The Roaring Silence; Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; New York Public Library online catalog; John Cage: Roaratorio (edited by Klaus Schöning)