** condition: Near Fine ** Superb copy of a fantastic collection of graphical scores conceived and edited by John Cage and published by Something Else Press in 1969. First edition of softbound 9x9" book with 316 fully illustrated pages reproducing 255 composer and artist scores from Cage's own collection. Featured artists include: Eric Andersen, Robert Filliou, Ay-O, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Paul Bowles, George Brecht, Stanley Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Henning Christiansen, Philip Corner, Josè E. Cortes, Manuel Cortes, Ramiro Cortes, Luigi Dallapiccola, Franco Evangelisti, Morton Feldman, Ken Friedman, Franco Donatoni, Al Hansen, Bici Hendricks, Geoff Hendricks, Juan Hidalgo, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Mauricio Kagel, Allan Kaprow, Bengt Af Klintberg, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Arthur Koepke, Takeisha Kosugi, Jackson Mac Low, Walter Marchetti, Tomas Marco, Max Neuhaus, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Robert Watts, Terry Riley, Diter Rot, Jerome Rothenberg, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Gianni Emilio Simonetti («ANalyse du vir.age» 1967), Karlheinz Stockhausen, Igor Stravinsky, Eric Satie, Yugi Takahashi, Wolf Vostell, David Tudor, Edgard Varese, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young, etc.
"The book is made up of a large collection of graphical scores, facsimiles of holographs, from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, with text by 269 composers, which are presented in alphabetical order, with each score allotted equal space, and in which the editor has no more authority than the reader in assigning value to the work. The text of the book was created using chance procedures to determine which of the 269 composers would be asked to write about their work, and how many words each entry was to consist of. These pieces of writing, which contain from one to sixty-four words, are preceded by paragraph signs. The typesetting was done by Alison Knowles using chance-derived mixtures of typefaces and sizes. There are also comments by Cage and other writers included throughout the book, typeset using similar procedures."