Скачать или смотреть Tom Johnson: Illustrated Music #26, Failing for Double Bass

“Failing, A Very Difficult Piece For Solo String Bass” is one of Tom Johnson’s most performed pieces. The musician has to comment on the piece while playing it, and expounds on the paradox that the performance is required to fail but bound to succeed if it indeed does so.

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Video by Gilles Paté.
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Tom Johnson (b. 1939)
Tom Johnson, a student of Morton Feldman, a friend of John Cage, and one of the pioneers of American minimal music, uses drawings with numbers to explain particular pieces of his mathematical music. Important works include Nine Bells, The Four Note Opera, An Hour for Piano and Failing.