COMPOSER SABRINA PENA YOUNG | MUSIC TECHNOLOGY | FILM | CLASSICAL | OPERA

Bed-In_for_Peace,_Amsterdam_1969 During the 1960s and 1970s, experimental musicians, poets, writers, and artists discovered a new art movement: The Fluxus Movement. Nude performances, television cellos, and silent compositions became the norm of an anything but normal movement.  The Fluxus movement of the 1960s and 1070s seemed to mirror America's societal insanity by the creation of experimental art pieces which stretched the limits of art and decency. The Fluxus crew was an unlikely mix of filmmakers, poets, writers, musicians, performance artists, and actors who joined together to create a neo-Dadaist movement intent on its own destruction through anti-art and severely anti-establishment art. I participated in a Fluxus Day Celebration with Allison Knowles and Larry Miller in Miami.  My poor boyfriend had to help push the piano. He thought we were nuts. Among the Fluxus artist was the controversial composer and philosopher John Cage , who had composed the w...