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American Experimental pianist David Tudor is well known for his extensive collaboration with John Cage beginning in the early 1950s and historic performances of groundbreaking works by Pierre Boulez, La Monte Young, Karlheinz Stockhausen, etc. In 1968, Tudor collaborated with John Cage and Marcel Duchamp on Reunion and by the end of the 1960s Tudor was focusing exclusively on composing and performing his own electronic works, often a mix of audio and visual elements. Performed with his own self-designed instruments. Much of his major work was composed for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company of which he became musical director after Cage’s death in 1992. The pioneering Microphone was conceived during his work on the Japan Expo in 1970.