OPENING PERFORMANCE ORCHESTRA : Chess Show (Other Memories of John Cage)

Tracklist
1-01 Part 1 8:00
1-02 Part 2 8:00
1-03 Part 3 8:00
1-04 Part 4 8:00
1-05 Part 5 8:00
1-06 Part 6 8:00
1-07 Part 7 8:00
1-08 Part 8 8:00
2-01 Part 1 8:00
2-02 Part 2 8:00
2-03 Part 3 8:00
2-04 Part 4 8:00
2-05 Part 5 8:00
2-06 Part 6 8:00
2-07 Part 7 8:00
2-08 Part 8 8:00

Notes
CD 1
Chess Show – live version | 2017 (64:00)
Opening Performance Orchestra – concept & electronics
Reinhold Friedl – piano / toy piano / other devices for Song Books
CD 2
Chess Show – 4'34" version (64:00)
Opening Performance Orchestra – concept & electronics
Miroslav Beinhauer – piano
World premiere recordings

CD 1 recorded live at the Ostrava Days festival in Ostrava, 25 August 2017, mastered by Michael Fossenkemper, Turtle Tone Studio, NYC
CD 2 recorded at re-set studio, Prague, June / August 2021, mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Producer: Wulf Weinmann
Executive producer: re-set production
Liner notes by Richard Kostelanetz, Sean Bronzell, Dove Bradshaw, Daan Vandewalle, Petr Ferenc
Photographs: Phill Niblock, Opening Performance Orchestra
Illustrations: “Chessboard variations” by Milan Guštar, “I Ching variations” by Jaroslav Buzek
Cover Art: Jaroslav Buzek
Translations: Markus Elsner, Wieland Hoban (German), Hilda Hearne (English), Baudime Jam (French)
Special thanks for Ostrava Center for New Music and Ostrava Days 2017 for the live recordings
Renata Spisarová and Petr Kotík, Laura Kuhn & John Cage Trust
Provided Courtesy of the John Cage Trust