CASSIOPEIA BY G. CACIOPPO (1962) // VERSION BY GERARD PAPE AND JOSEF KA // MARRAKESH 2026
September 24th 2026 was the 100th birthday of the great Italo-American composer, George Cacioppo. George made very important contributions to avant-garde music in the 1960s and 1970s in the fields of graphic score notation and composing with sound itself.
To celebrate his centenary, Gerard Pape and Josef Ka performed a version of CASSIOPEIA for 2 pianos, 8 hands. This event was recorded at the Grand Cafe de la Poste in Marrakech. Video was made by Josef Ka for this recording in Morocco.
Gerard Pape is an avant-garde composer and former student of Cacioppo. Josef Ka is a performance artist who studies music with Gerard Pape.
We are grateful to the Grand Café de la Poste in Marrakech who supported this project.
The full version of CASSIOPEIA, Cacioppo centenary performance in Marrakech, will be published September 26th 2026 at 9 am Morocco time.
International performance, visual and sound artist Josef Ka blends richly varied influences – everything from Butoh dance to cinematic theory – with her decades of nomadic world travel to create bold, highly personal site-specific art.
Josef Ka’s themes range from investigating the place of the human body in contemporary reality to exploring the inner body as a representative system of our human and post human kind.
Her artistic practice often actively invites the audience inside a sort of private reverie, making it is a deeply participatory one; she actively engages with both her audiences and with a wide diversity of other experimental artists.
In addition to her own work, Josef Ka curates a regular series of events and exhibitions at her Helsinki underground space – Sauna Gallery – and teaches classes on the theory and practice of performance art. She is also the inventor of the WORST THEATRE and her yogic training system, KA-YOGA.
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