Group Ongaku, Mieko Shiomi, Takehisa Kosugi, Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Stan VanDerBeek, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Toshio Matsumoto, Joji Yuasa, Takahiko Iimura, Alvin Lucier, Yori-Aki Matsudaira, Roger Reynolds, John Cage, Tatsumi Hijikata, George Cacioppo, David Rosenboom, Toru Takemitsu, Shuko Mizuno, Salvatore Martirano, etc.
Cross Talk Intermedia Festival box set.
Tokyo: American Cultural Center, 1969.
6 Staple-bound softcovers, one six-panel twice-folded sheet, and a single-fold double-sided flyer.
pages.
English & Japanese text.
Very good.
Box has minor wear and soiling. Printed box cover "slick" has some edge tears at spine, but this doesn't affect the actual cardboard box which is still fully functional and strong. Light unobtrusive foxing inside box at spine.
A box set produced on the occasion of the Cross Talk Intermedia Festival, which took place February 5-7, 1969 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, containing six booklets, a pamphlet and a flyer.
1. Program. 8 pages including covers. Details the festival schedule and events.
2. Articles by John Cage, R. Buckminster Fuller, and Peter Yates. 28 pages.
3. Articles by Gordon Mumma and Stan VanDerBeek. 22 pages.
4. Articles by Taro Okamoto, Shuzo Takiguchi, and Kenzo Tange. 28 pages.
5. Profiles of the performers: Robert Ashley, George Cacioppo, John Cage, Tatsumi Hijikata, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Takahiko Iimura, Takehisa Kosugi, Alvin Lucier, Salvatore Martirano, Yori-Aki Matsudaira, Toshio Matsumoto, Shuko Mizuno, Gordon Mumma, Ronald Nameth, Roger Reynolds, David Rosenboom, Mieko Shiomi, Toru Takemitsu, Stan VanDerBeek, and Joji Yuasa. 40 pages
6. A technical plan for Gordon Mumma's Hornpipe (1967) Channel 1 configuration.
7. Japanese language program. 8 pages.
8. Stan VanDerBeek flyer.
