Pre-recorded music

A recording of John Cage's Litany for the Whale for two voices (me singing both parts), mixed with whale songs is played quietly as the audience comes in. The distant wailing of the whales and the two voices kneading a melody can be heard throughout the performance, when all else is quiet.

On 5 occasions, 5 different versions of John Cage's Imaginary Landscape IV for 42 Records is played. These versions were mixed by me in 1997: a large number of records was divided into 4 groups: Western Contemporary recordings, Jazz and pop music, Non-Western music (or world music, if you don't mind the term), old records I used to listen to when I was a kid. I used the previous 4 versions as the source material for the 5th version.