Dick Higgins
Dick Higgins (March 15, 1938 – October 25, 1998) was a composer, poet, printer, and early Fluxus artist. Higgins was born in Cambridge, England, but raised in the United States in various parts of New England, including Worcester, Massachusetts, Putney, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire. He was the son of Carter Chapin Higgins and Katherine Huntington Bigelow. His younger brother Mark Huntington Higgins was murdered in the Congo in 1960.
With the poet Jackson Mac Low, another soon-to-be Fluxus artist George Brecht, and the two innovators of Happenings, Allan Kaprow and Al Hansen, Higgins studied composition with John Cage at the New School of Social Research in New York in the late 1950s. During this time Higgins began to produce the first scores for events that rework everyday activities into performances that may or may not incorporate music. He then married fellow artist Alison Knowles in 1960 and both took part in the Wiesbaden, Germany Fluxus festival in 1962 that marked the founding of Fluxus activity. He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein, Bern Porter, Marshall McLuhan, Cage, Merce Cunningham, Cage's teacher Henry Cowell, as well as his contemporaries such as artists Kaprow, Hansen, Claes Oldenburg and Ray Johnson as well as leading Fluxus members Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Eric Andersen, Ken Friedman, and others. The Something Else Press series of "Great Bear Pamphlets," documented the earliest Fluxus performances.
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Dick Higgins
ALBUMS
- Fluxus Anthology released: 1995
Fluxus Anthology
Released 1995- Per la sete dell'orecchio
- Taraman
- Dream House
- Some Ideas for Fluxus
- Elektronischer de-collage. Happening raum
- Broken Music Composition
- Imitating the Sound of the Birds
- Natural assemblage. Le vrai corbeau
- Duet
- Radio Music
- Sonne Stat Reagan
- Toilet Piece
- B.B. Finally Dreams About Life, B.B.'s, You Play It
- Car Passing at Night, Country Road in Maine
- The Untactis of Music
- Interview
- My Jubilee Is Unverhemmet
- Orchestra Requiem Variations
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by Down By Law
D.C. Guns
by: Down By Lawa blue, grey sky fills my head today
the drums sound softly a million miles away
i know these things all seem the same
to you it's just an endless game
i know these things all seem the same
a blue black sky you disappear in grey
what should be bitter tastes very sweet today
i know these things all seem the same
to you it's just an endless game
like d.c guns fired in the rain
and if i look to you what would i find?
so many doorways closed
so many times
but i just can't believe
the world's that way
the d.c. guns fall silent for a day
a bad time gone