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The exhibition Teasing Chaos. David Tudor at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg is the first to pay tribute to David Tudor's transformation from interpreter to composer-performer, his groundbreaking achievements in the field of live electronics, and his interdisciplinary projects between 1961 and 1996. Decisively expanding the narrative of Tudor as interpreter and pianist, the presentation and the accompanying publication fill a longstanding gap in the perception of this remarkable artist. They also extend the series of acclaimed exhibitions and publications of the past ten years in which the Museum der Moderne Salzburg has turned the spotlight on American artists and organisations of the postwar era working on the interfaces between visual art, music, performance, and technology.

David Tudor (1926-1996) was one of the leading pianists and interpreters of contemporary music in Europe and the USA in the 1950s. His ability to respond to the indeterminate character of demanding scores by composers such as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Christian Wolff and to execute their at times ambiguous instructions was unique and fascinated his contemporaries. In the early 1960s, he made the transition from interpreter to composer-performer and created the basis for a practice that we know today as live electronic music. Teasing Chaos is the first comprehensive presentation of his pioneering work and his interdisciplinary collaborations with visual artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Duchamp, and Jacqueline Matisse Monnier and pays tribute to an oeuvre that has thus far received far too little attention.