| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Stony Point, New York; Middleton, Connecticut and Ann Arbor, Michigan, January - May 1960. |
| Instrumentation: | Material for making a mechanical program |
| Duration: | Indeterminate |
| Premiere and performer(s): | |
| Dedicated to: | --- (?) |
| Choreography: | Merce Cunningham: Antic Meet (1958) |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6772 © 1960 by Henmar Press. |
| Manuscript: | Score (holograph in ink, signed - 1+20 p. + 1 transparency) in New York Public Library. |
| WBAI is named after New York's Pacifica station. This composition may be used in whole or in part by an operator of machines. Cage gives some examples on the title-page of the score: 1. tape machines in a performance of Fontana Mix with Solo for Piano, Aria etc. 2. Record players with amplifiers and tone controlers. 3. Amplifier and tone control of the speakers voice in reading a lecture like Indeterminacy, Communication or Where Are We Going, And What Are We Doing?. The durations in the score are graphed in space. The length in time is to be determined by the performer. |