new documentary on Cornelius Cardew reviewed here...

"Archival footage of this performance takes in a floor strewn with items including a record-player, a cheese grater and balls of cotton wool, and performers carrying out actions and gestures such as skimming tiny stones across the surface of a drum or strumming on a gilt plate rack. Pieces such as these were shaped by Cardew's rhetorical remark, "If it is possible to spin gold from straw, surely it is possible to spin bronze from brown paper, or silver from the waterfall?""