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- Piotr (or Pjotr) Zak is the name of a fictional Polish composer whose alleged composition Mobile for Tape and Percussion was broadcast twice on the BBC Third Programme on 5 June 1961 in a performance supposedly played by "Claude Tessier" and "Anton Schmidt". In fact, the composer and the performers were pseudonyms of BBC producers Hans Keller and Susan Bradshaw, who concocted the deliberately unmusical percussive piece as a hoax. According to Bradshaw, "It was a serious hoax to set people thinking that fake music can be indistinguishable from the genuine." The success of the hoax, however, is open to question. While Mobile for Tape and Percussion was reviewed seriously by several critics, all of the reviews were roundly negative, with the piece being almost instantly identified as a "non-musical" studio prank. (en)
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- Anon. 1961. "B.B.C. Deny Hoax". The Times issue 55148 : 10, col. D. (en)
- Mitchell, Donald. 1961a. "Unbearable Simplicity in Newest Music: Naive Mr. Nono". Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, no. 33,010 : 16. (en)
- Mitchell, Donald. 1961b. "Critics Were Not Deceived: Zak and His 'Mobile'", letter to the editor, Daily Telegraph and Morning Post : 10. (en)
- [Noble, Jeremy]. 1961. "Disappointing Mobile". The Times, issue 55100 p. 16, col. E. (en)
- Ottoway, Hugh. 1967. "Prospect and Perspective". In The Symphony, edited by Robert Simpson, 2:. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. . (en)
- Keller, Hans, Susan Bradshaw, and Alvar Lidell. 1961. "Piotr Zak: Mobile for Tape and Percussion. BBC Third Programme . Hans Keller Online . (en)
- Myers, Rollo H. 1961. "Critic on the Hearth: Music: Too Rarified?". The Listener and B.B.C. Television Review 65, no. 1681 : 1064–65. (en)
- Lewis, Anthony. 1961. "B.B.C. Admits a Musical Hoax: Noise by Imaginary Composer". New York Times : 1. (en)
- Garnham, Alison. 2003. Hans Keller and the BBC: The Musical Conscience of British Broadcasting, 1959–79. Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. . (en)
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- Piotr (or Pjotr) Zak is the name of a fictional Polish composer whose alleged composition Mobile for Tape and Percussion was broadcast twice on the BBC Third Programme on 5 June 1961 in a performance supposedly played by "Claude Tessier" and "Anton Schmidt". In fact, the composer and the performers were pseudonyms of BBC producers Hans Keller and Susan Bradshaw, who concocted the deliberately unmusical percussive piece as a hoax. According to Bradshaw, "It was a serious hoax to set people thinking that fake music can be indistinguishable from the genuine." The success of the hoax, however, is open to question. While Mobile for Tape and Percussion was reviewed seriously by several critics, all of the reviews were roundly negative, with the piece being almost instantly identified as a "non-m (en)
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