Piotr Zak

Avant-garde composer from a June 5, 1961 episode of the BBC radio show on classical music, Third Programme. They played Zak's Mobile for Tape and Percussion; Zak was a hoax perpetrated by BBC employees Hans Keller (a music theorist and writer) and Susan Bradshaw (a classical pianist), as a criticism of then-current trends in avant-garde music by Stockhausen and John Cage.

The hoax was revealed a couple months later in a discussion program with Keller and some music critics, with news making Timemagazine and Variety.

So as a post script, in the July 1962 issue of the prestigious The Musical Times, there was an article titled “Zak on Stockhausen” written by ZAK! And Zak says that he was influenced by Stockhausen, while simultaneously Stockhausen was influenced by Zak with the same piece.

External Links

• https://musicb3.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/zaks-mobile-is-the-rest-noise/
• https://archive.org/details/time-1961-05-19/Time%201961-08-11/page/52/mode/2up?q=%22piotr+zak%22&view=theater
• https://musicb3.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/hans-keller-piotr-zak-and-the-bbc/
• https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/keller-duchamp
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/949096?seq=1