The Unavailable Memory of

Composed in 1944. Premiered in New York, April 5, 1944.

4 minutes

This work was originally used as music for the choreographed piece by Merce Cunningham of the same title. This work is available in the C.F. Peters compilation "Prepared Piano Music 1940-47, Vol. 2" (catalog number noted). This composition was edited by Richard Bunger in 1977. It is static and contemplative, and notated entirely in the bass-clef. It consists of various arpeggiations using the same five pitches.

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Cage: As it is

Alexei Lubimov, Piano, Prepared Piano Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Voice

ECM Records