![from Variations V, by John Cage 1965. Made for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The music was generated by a series of sound systems rigged up on the stage, resulting in a unique score for each performance.
“[Cage] and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement. For the first, Billy Klüver and his colleagues set up a system of directional photocells aimed at the stage lights, so that the dancers triggered sounds as they cut the light beams with their movements. A second system used a series of antennas. When a dancer came within four feet of an antenna a sound would result. “](http://25.media.tumblr.com/mzAxUtXkZmhiawxnTGEdD1vFo1_500.png)
from Variations V, by John Cage 1965. Made for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The music was generated by a series of sound systems rigged up on the stage, resulting in a unique score for each performance.
“[Cage] and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement. For the first, Billy Klüver and his colleagues set up a system of directional photocells aimed at the stage lights, so that the dancers triggered sounds as they cut the light beams with their movements. A second system used a series of antennas. When a dancer came within four feet of an antenna a sound would result. “
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