Detailed information of Letter to Dr. Steinecke

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Artist
Nam June Paik
Date of birth/death
1932-2006
Title
Letter to Dr. Steinecke
Year
1958
Description
Paik wrote a letter to Wolfgang Steinecke, the then-director of the International Music Institute, Darmstadt in 1958. In this letter, Paik provided a detailed explanation of his Hommage à John Cage, emphasizing that his music was a kind of “a-music” comprising “functional sounds freed from their functions” such as sounds of toys, weather forecasts, news.
Type
Painting
Copyright
Exhibitions
Exhibition : x_sound: John Cage, Nam June Paik and After / Period : 2012-03-09~2012-07-01 전시정보 보기
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