Insert included. One of the most ambitious recordings in John Cage's discography. Atlas Eclipticalis - composed in 1961 by tracing astronomical star charts onto transparent paper and using the resulting patterns as notation - is scored for any ensemble drawn from a full orchestra, each part independent and simultaneous. Winter Music for one to twenty pianos operates on similar principles of indeterminate coexistence. Mode Records gave the work a documentation commensurate with its scale: a 4LP box that attempts to capture something of the spatial complexity of a work conceived for live acoustic space, not fixed recording.