Ping: Performance photographs: Image from Ping film (left) and projected (altered) text (on left)

Premiere performance of "Ping" at Toru Takemitsu's Festival "Orchestral Space '68". Photos were taken in association with the two Japanese performances (one in June of 1968, that other a year later). Photos were also taken during rehearsals (with and without full performance conditions involving black-out and projections). It is therefore not always possible to know with which circumstance (The 1968 "Music Today" festival or the 1969 “CROSSTALK Intermedia”) a photo is associated. So far as I am aware, no photos were taken during the 1968 UCSD performance when I was serving as a Regent's Lecturer in the UCSD Music Department.

• June, 1968

• Reynolds, Roger, 1934-

• Kumagai, Hirosh

Tokyo, Japan

Based on: Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Ping

In performance, both a filmed image and a succession of slides that present the completer Beckett text sequentially are shown. The text slides are subjected to continuous visual alteration by means of prisms and colored filters.

Part of: Toru Takemitsu's Festival "Orchestral Space '68"

• Photographs

• Kumagai, Hirosh

• Multimedia works
• Music festivals
• Music--Performance

• image
• text

• English

Shared Shelf: 3975204

Online finding aid

• Roger Reynolds Collection at the Library of Congress

Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art

Performing Arts (including Performance Art)

UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)

• Reynolds, Roger, 1934-

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2021-09-29