"You Turned the Tables on Me", one hundred and fifteen contemporary musicians and composers portrayed by Roberto Masotti between 1974 and 1981, with the constant (yet always variable) presence of a small table as a stage prop, which always traveled with the photographer.
“It was found and purchased on a sunny afternoon in May 1974 from a gypsy camp on the outskirts of Milan, where people made a living buying and selling scrap metal. It was used, incidentally, for the first time as a stage prop while I was taking a portrait of Juan Hidalgo, a Fluxus artist, and again with Walter Marchetti, who along with Hidalgo and Esther Ferrer formed the group Zaj. From there, the idea was born to create a series of portraits of musicians in which the table would be present. Each person involved would first look through all the previously selected images, and then freely decide how to interact and what other objects, if any, to surround themselves with.”
In order of appearance: Irene Aebi, Carlos Roqué Alsina, Maarten Altena, Barry Altschul, Beth Anderson, Arza Anaiak: Jose and Jesus Arze, Robert Ashley, Derek Bailey, David Behrman, Han Bennink, Steve Beresford, Luciano Berio, Carla Bley, Eberhard Blum, Lester Bowie, Anthony Braxton, Willem Breuker, Peter Brötzmann, Gavin Bryars, Paul Burwell, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Giancarlo Cardini, Kent Carter, Paolo Castaldi, Rhys Chatham, Giuseppe Chiari, Günter Christmann, Miguel Angel Coria, Lol Coxhill, Alvin Curran, Leo Cuypers, Terry Day, Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani, Max Eastley, Brian Eno, Malachi Favors, Morton Feldman, Esther Ferrer, Simone Forti, Johannes Fritsch, Jon Gibson, Philip Glass, Vinko Globokar, Peter Gordon, Fernando Grillo, Barry Guy, Gunter Hampel, Richard P. Hyman, Juan Hidalgo, Tristan Honsinger, Maurice Horsthuis, Martin Davorin Jagodić, Joseph Jarman, Leroy Jenkins, Tom Johnson, Mauricio Kagel, Petr Kotik, Peter Kowald, Christina Kubisch, Steve Lacy, Oliver Lake, Jeanne Lee, George Lewis, Garrett List, Daniele Lombardi, Paul Lovens, Alvin Lucier, Paul Lytton, Radu Malfatti, Albert Mangelsdorff, Michael Mantler, Walter Marchetti, Guido Mazzon, Misha Mengelberg, Costin Miereanu, Roscoe Mitchell, Meredith Monk, Charlie Morrow, Davide Mosconi, Famoudou Don Moye, Max Neuhaus, Michael Nyman, Tony Oxley, Charlemagne Palestine, Evan Parker, Michel Pilz, Fabrizio Plessi, Michel Portal, Sun Ra, Steve Reich, Josef Anton Riedl, Terry Riley, Paul Rutherford, Frederic Rzewski, Dieter Schnebel, Detlef Schönenberg, Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw, Wadada Leo Smith, Demetrio Stratos, Akio Suzuki, Cecil Taylor, John Tchicai, Richard Teitelbaum, David Toop, Horacio Vaggione, Peter van Ripe, David Van Tieghem, Ivan Vandor, Jesus Villa-Rojo, Alex von Schlippenbach, Michel Waisvisz, Kate Barnard Westbrook, Mike Westbrook, Kenny Wheeler, John White, Elisabeth Wiener, Walter Zimmermann.
