Notices by Paulo da Fonseca (lesondouble@c.im)

Dick Higgins, (1977), The Nature of Fish, (postcard), Unpublished Editions, Kensington, CA, n.d. [1978]

Audio mixing desk at the BBC Broadcast House, ca. 1930.

George Maciunas
Piano Piece no. 13 for Nam June Paik, 1964

David Tudor and John Cage at Radiostudio Bremen, 1972
ph: Andreas Buttmann

Engineers in the control room during the performance of John Cage's Variations VII, October 15, 1966
Seated: Herb Schneider. Standing from left: Larry Helios, Robbie Robinson and behind them Bob Kieronski and Ralph Flynn.

In his essay, called The Future of Local Music, Morton Feldman sums up his position on many things:

'There is a marvelous story about Duchamp and an art student in San Francisco many years ago. Duchamp goes to this art school and he sees this kind of tough, macho San Francisco painter and Duchamp looks at this picture he doesn’t know. He says to the fellow, “What are you doing?” And the painter says, “I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing.” Duchamp pats him on the back and says, “Keep up the good work!”