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On September 25th Bunita Marcus - an unsung heroine of post minimalist music and close associate of Morton Feldman and John Cage - releases her ‘Lecture for Jo Kondo’ EP, on 99CHANTS. A promising talent within the 1970s/80s New York avant garde music scene, at the time (and also at intervals since) Marcus made formidable achievements, but her full potential was side-lined in a patriarchal environment, where male musicians were allowed to easily dominate, largely unchecked.
Her important part in the cannon of contemporary music has been almost entirely overlooked in music/arts media, and omitted from the dominant narrative on key figures, which is something the 99Chants label hopes start redressing with this release.
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Director: Aron Kitzig
Camera: Andy Haas
Film scanning: Jessica Becker
Images courtesy the private archive of Bunita Marcus & Testklang
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written and composed by Bunita Marcus
performed by Ensemble Adapter & Bunita Marcus
Out September 25th on vinyl + cassette and digital format
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