Dimensions / 20.3×25.4cm (8x10inch)
Medium / B&W Photograph

This is Dick Higgins’ Constellation No.7, presented in Festum Fluxorum Fluxus, Musik und Antimusik – Das Instrumentale Theater held in Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1963. The photograph shows, from left, Wolf Vostell, Tomas Schmit, Frank Trowbridge, Bengt af Klintberg, Arthur Køpcke, Daniel Spoerri and Nam June Paik, with conductor George Maciunas. Higgins composed Constellation series, referring to individual sound units as events, with “several events making up a constellation.” In Festum Fluxorum Fluxus, No.7 was followed by No.4 in which multiple performers simultaneously produce their own sound on any instrument available such as strings, gongs, bells, tubes, or voices, which has a clearly defined percussive attack and a delay which is no longer than a second. Constellation No.7 was again performed later in April that year, in Al Hansen’s Happenings, Events and Advanced Musics in New York.