John Cage 100, MaerzMusik 2012

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The Konzerthausorchester Berlin performs "103" by John Cage together with his film "One" at the festival MaerzMusik 2012 in Berlin.

MaerzMusik is the annual Festival of Contemporary Music organised by the Berliner Festspiele. Established artists and young newcomers from all over the world come to Berlin each March to present a full programme with many world premieres and new productions, many of which are commissioned by MaerzMusik.

MaerzMusik is a direct reaction to new relations between sound and society today. The festival for contemporary music transcends the borders between tradition and innovation. With its broad range of orchestral and chamber music, innovative musical theatre, experimental works and media art it provides a fascinating and rich panorama of contemporary music.

»Of course the film will be about the effect of light in an empty space. But no space is actually empty and the light will show what is in it. And all this space and all this light will be controlled by random operations.«
John Cage

Shortly before his death, John Cage realised his vision of a film. It is his first and only film: One¹¹ (1992), a 90‐minute black and white film without actors, objects or a plot. A film composition for light with a simple concept. It was realised under the direction of filmmaker and composer Henning Lohner in a Munich television studio with a great deal of technical input and care. The well‐known cameraman Van Theodore Carlson executed the composition.

The film One can simultaneously be performed with the orchestral work 103 (1991). Without referring directly to one another, each has 17 parts. Each part of the film, the light projection in the completely empty television studio and the motion of a camera mounted on a crane rest on approximately 1200 random operations devised by a computer. In the orchestral work 103 (for 103 interpreters without a conductor), variable time brackets are used in which each of the instruments plays a series of single notes.

Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Ilan Volkov, musical coach
Henning Lohner, production / direction
Van Carlson, camera