Artist
Mac Low, Jackson
Edition (10 work / s)
Code FX1266 1/5 Audio / Performance / Edition
1st Milarepa Gatha
1976-1978
1. Score
a. Large version, 1978
Published by Edizioni Pari & Dispari, Cavriago
Silkscreen on cardboard, 56 x 41 cm.
Signed and numbered 67/200
b. Small version, 1980
with 1st Milarepa Ghata Bb clarinet
Two printed sheets (both sides), 28 x 22 cm. each
Originally bound with "Winds" small version
Archived in ring binder
2. Audio, included in:
a. Milarepa Gata, 1978
Published by Edizioni Pari & Dispari, Cavriago
Recording of world premiere, realized by J. M. Low
and Sharow Mattlin speaker-vocalist, in live concert
at WBAI-FM'S Church Studio N.Y, 1976
b. "Concert at the Kitchen", 1984, No. FXM0201
c. "Open Secrets", 1993 No. FXM0035
Performers: J. Mac. Low and A. Tardos
d. "Doings. Assorted Performance
Pieces", 2005 No. FX1183
3. Video
Length: 07'20"
included in "An Anthology", 1978 No. FXM0717
Web download. Uploaded on Vimeo by Franklin Furnace
World premiere of instrumental realization, is based on the mantra invoking Milarepa, a founder of Tibetan Buddhism and a Boddhisattva. Translitteration of the mantra were placed vertically in successive columns of squares of quadrille paper.
Bibl.: "Vinyl records and covers by artists", exhibitions catalogue, Bremen, Barcelona 2005, p.93