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‘John Cage made ‘Variations V’ in 1965 for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement: directional photocells aimed at the stage lights, so that the dancers triggered sounds as they cut the light beams with their movements, and a series of antennae. When a dancer came within four feet of an antenna a sound would result. Cage, Tudor, and Gordon Mumma operate equipment to modify and determine the final sounds.’ - from mediaartnet .

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