George Brecht, Ben Patterson - Drip Music / 370 Flies flac album

Listen to music from Ben Patterson like Trombone Detritus, a simple opera & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Ben Patterson. Benjamin Patterson (Pittsburgh, May 29, 1934) is an American musician, an artist and one of the founders of the Fluxus movement.

The constant noise from drops of water-a recollection of Brecht’s event Drip Music from the 1950s-accompanies this acoustic mobile of multilingual voices. These pieces will be presented as a non-stop performance in a specially designed listening booth.

His own performance of Drip Music used laboratory pipettes for the dripping and Brecht's paintings of the late 1950s – the medium was soon discarded as too limiting – were made using a kind of titration process. George Ellis MacDiarmid (George Brecht), composer and artist: born New York 27 August 1926; married (one son); died Cologne, Germany 5 December 2008. Arts Musicals New York City New York State.

George Brecht's Drip Music (1962), performed by George Maciunas during Festum k und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 2, 1963. George Brecht's Drip Music (1962), performed by George Maciunas during Fluxus Festival, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963.

George Maciunas, largely considered to be the founder of this fluid movement, coined the name Fluxus in 1961 to title a proposed magazine. Many artists of the 1960s took part in Fluxus activities, including Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, John Cale, Robert Filliou, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Bengt af Klintberg, Alison Knowles, Addi Køpcke, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Daniel Spoerri, and Wolf Vostell. Not only were they a diverse community of collaborators who influenced each other, they were also, largely, friends. The origins of Fluxus lie in many of the concepts explored by composer John Cage in his experimental music of the 1930s through the 1960s.

George Maciunas, George Brecht, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, Paul Sharits, Robert Filliou, Roland Topor, Daniel Spoerri. Flux Year Box 2, 1966-1968. Alison Knowles, George Brecht, Robert Watts. Alison Knowles" at Carnegie Museum of Art, 2016.

George Brecht, 1964, portrait by George Maciunas. George Ellis MacDiarmid One of the originators of 'participatory' art, in which the artwork can only be experienced by the active involvement of the viewer, he is most famous for his Event Scores such as Drip Music 1962, (see Video on YouTube) and is widely seen as an important precursor to conceptual art. He described his own.

Ben Patterson, String Music, 1960. Benjamin Patterson’s Variations for Double Bass, 1961. Even George Maciunas, the Andre Breton of Fluxus, places him at the beginnings of Fluxus. See here one of Maciunas’ obsessive diagrams. Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and Other 4 Dimensional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial and Tactile Art Forms.

American artist and composer. George Brecht (August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008), born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil. He was a key member of, and influence on, Fluxus, the international group of avant-garde artists centred on George Maciunas, having been involved with the group from the first performances in Wiesbaden 1962 until Maciunas' death in 1978. Brecht had replaced this with a world permeated with music. No matter what you do," he said, "you're always hearing something. In October 1959, fresh from studying with Cage, Brecht organised his first one-man show at the Reuben Gallery, New York.