TV CELLO

What I'd like to do in Linz is the "TV Cello" that he made for me in 1971. It's old work but the Germans have built us another cello - you know they use the PAL System, 620 scan lines to the tube whereas in America our system is something like 535 scan lines to the tube - so to bring the American TV cello to Europe would be silly, I wouldn't get a picture.

The Graetz TV factory made me a gorgeous TV cello similar to the one I have in America. I want to play that Paik in Linz and slow the performance scan back to Chicago where the American TV cello is on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I'd like for that to be played in America while Paik and I are playing the German TV cello.

(Interview recorded August 6, 1982. New York City)

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