Aaron Dilloway - John Cage / Rozart Mix LP [Hanson Records]

GREAT WILD TAPE LOOP MIX - a JOHN CAGE piece, realized by AARON DILLOWAY with help from QUINTRON, Rose Actor-Engel, Twig Harper, C. Lavender, Rubert Turman, and John Wiese. Hanson Records:So excited and honored to finally release the vinyl document of my realization of JOHN CAGE’s ROZART MIX. Back in the extremely strange year of 2020, I was approached by Wave Farm and John Cage Trust to stage a performance of this seldomly performed piece that Cage wrote for Alvin Lucier. The piece is comprised of 88 tape loops (one for each key of a piano), spliced together with multiple non-musical sounds played back on 12 reel to reel machines. In January of 2021 I spent a wonderful and intense week researching ROZART MIX at John Cage Trust at Bard College. It was the first place I had visited during the pandemic. On October 23, 2021, with the assistance of Rose Actor-Engel, Twig Harper, C. Lavender, Quintron, Robert Turman, and John Wiese, I presented a 6 hour performance of ROZART MIX at John Cag