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Following Paik's virtuoso Collage style, Sanborn and Fitzgerald construct this tribute to the eternal wonder child from a mixture of existing film and television material, double images and electronic alienation effects. There are fragments of interviews with Paik, John Cage and Charlotte Moorman. Even the father of Fluxus, the Dadaist Marcel Duchamp appears briefly on the screen. Paik's Fluxus irony is evoked in this tape by a few of his notorious performances. He licks the pedals of a piano clean and destroys traditional music by breaking gramophone records. Humour and anti-humour, thoughts about Zen, electronics, sex and music are fused to a unity. Many celebrities of the New York avantgarde in the Sixties are shown on the screen. The city as a musical instrument. All the attributes of a city, the stone, glass, iron and steel are used by David van Tieghem as one massive percussion instrument.
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