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Bill Viola, RIP

Bill Viola, RIP

The American video artist who work was central to Peter Sellars’ and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s celebrated 2004 Tristan und Isolde, has died of Alzheimers complications aged 73.

He started out as a student of the John Cage associate, David Tudor.

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