FROM GOOGLE TRANSLATE! may not be completely correct
Alvin Lucier: Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever) Wearing a helmet is strongly recommended to hear the harmonics. The work is in two parts: fragments of the Beatles song “Strawberry Fields Forever” were played on the piano with sostenuto pedal so as to endure the sounds and develop harmonics; are repeated on different octaves and more or less strong. They are recorded. At first we did not understand why there are only small pieces, shreds, which are meaningful only in the second part. The images are also closed circle … This makes sense when the band previously recorded broadcasts in the teapot (which I really enjoy, “amplified teapot” – you had to find it), the soundtrack of the beginning itself does not seem very interesting, and difficult to follow with all its silences. The work is close to the compositions of John Cage, who are also performances, staged: the pianist recorded the small pieces, and then he stops, gets up, starts recording that is broadcast in the teapot where there is also a microphone that comes the sound outside through a speaker (hence the term “amplified teapot”), and it “plays” with the opening of the cover, which allows harmonics recorded previously to develop completely differently (see the “cosmic” opening on the red nebula). I wonder how we can call a teapot player … the “macrocosm” the piano is thus found in the microcosm of the teapot …. In my video, I used personal photographs, as well as reproductions of prints by Hokusai and Hiroshige “pictures of the floating world” in the Buddhist sense: there are permanent as Impermanence and photographs of the cosmos and the all in the all, everything is evanescent. Nothing is real. Nothing is Real. The Universe turns in my cup of tea. QED