Rainbow No.2 for Orchestra

W,Ehlhalten,May1963.Ihear

with my third ear that you are driving to

AmsterdamwithBazonBrock

March1963DearNamJune:

I got your letter 8 hours before I

wouldhaveleftforKoln

. Couldyoustop by Ehlhalten andpick up 5 or 6 lmprojectors I got for Nam June Paik, and his suit (one he messed upin Maybe the bathtub could t on top of the auto roof??? I won't be able to go to Amsterdam since I feel quite sick, got some injection of the nerve in the back of the leg, so I am like that "prince" evsky'suncle'sdream - allfalling apart at the seams Anyway, I will be able togotoLondon , sincejustluckilymyo ceis sending me to London on a TDY on October 15th for a week or two. So sick or healthyI will go, since akingabout$7adayon myTDY allowance; besides, I would like to see thoseeventsonthe27th(attheMis tsFestival)... Iwillstay most likely at YMCA as I can't think of any cheaper accommodation there. Letterto

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IgotitTuesdayeveningandImeant

to leave early in the morning But since you advise me not to come, I will not goWednesday e my plans: tomorrow (Wed morning) I will telegram Tomas to come by train and telephone me at hospital . I can take him then to Ehlhalten I will stay-in hospital until Friday but I am not cured- I cured,theysay.I am not curable. Instead of seeing you at your studio, whichIwantedto very muchsince Icame to Europe, I will have to go to Wuppertal to see your exhibition So I will arrive on March 9th, Saturday, m. and will stay till Sunday, March 10th, till 12p m., when I must drive back I will come with Tomas and will photograph EVERYTHING (I will bring 20 lms) I will also bring various objects that could be used for the Review of Avant-Garde Hinduism I now have 100 thick books on all kinds ofsubjects - Arctic bibliography, law indexes, martial law, directories, all bound in leather very nicely- rint or paste on review labels - and send each such a book. I also have many medicine bottles , old tablets, pills, poisons that could be included in these bottles Also I got from printer sheets that he uses to through press, so that these pages have about 10 pages overprinted on them . I can bind books from these & we can make another review number So I will bring all these ideas & samples to & we candiscuss in GREAT DETAIL the review project. Photographs of allyour objects shouldgo in a separate Paik box like Brecht Fluxus box. (Just a box of photographs ) I will bring parachutes to Wuppertalhave twodo you need more? I will decide who is to give concerts in New York Fluxus , not Dick If I say you give whole concert everyone will agree - Brecht, La Monte, Patterson & Emmett think you are standIthink so too, therefore you should have a proportional representation .. In late May &June wego withthe car to Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania & maybe USSR to give many Fluxus concerts With me will mett and maybe Spoerri (I don't know) Too bad you cannot come . When do you go to Japan??? After Wuppertal? But I want to prepare your review during March & April in advance for will travel East, and autumn in New York etc., so I willnothave too muchtime . Butin 2months with3people much can be done (2 of them working full time). Is there a cheap hotel for us to stayin ? Letter to EW, Ehlhalten, Feb 1963 There are another 700 of Spoerri ' s books in Wiesbaden at printer's, but I will let the printer keep them because I have nothing to pay him with and he will no tgive books and trust that I will pay later. The devil suspects something. You know about Olivetti piece , you need no score. Just get a tape from any Olivetti adding machine and you have a score O ces, hrow them away by tons, just go & ask OK? Incidentally, correct title is in memoriam to Adriano Olivetti (not homage) OK? We did it in Nice (on promenade) this Olivetti with bowler hats only all with bowle rhats formally dressed-looked better than other versions – like for a funeralvery appropriate - you could do that version Also you could do a church version. stures a priest uses in mass & do them according to the score, but sharp! & a priest in vestments must do it , not just any actor OK? Instructions are like this: each performer chooses number, metronome out 120 or less. Each tact indicates horizontal line. When performer sees his number (sharp on tact) like lifts his hat, on next number he lowers his hat But must be bowler hats or top hats, any hat. And in memoriam must be like in funeral . I picked up load of bowler hats at the Paris eece market at 4 NF each Letter to EW, Ehlhalten, June-July 1964.

A t o t a l l y i n e x p e r i e n c e d o r c h e s t r a p la y s a 7 n o t e m a j o r s c a l e o n v a r i o u s i n s t r u m e n t s .

100. The generator in my bus burnt up and had to be replaced . That's such a lot of money that I will have to embark upon an austerity program One thing to do is skip London, especially since is not the cheapest Therefore I trust you can carry out & lead Fluxus part there very well . Tomas will be there The program there was to be: Lots of English pieces, plus: