The photograph shows Sound of the Animals Dying, 13 to 1 from Twenty-Seven Episodes for the Aquarian Theater to the Recognition of Antonin Artaud, which took place in Dick Higgins’ The Broadway Opera held at Die Lupe, Cologne on November 11th, 1962. Six well-dressed artists intentionally made immature sounds by gargling, groaning, and shrieking. From the left of the picture are Higgins, Frank Trowbridge, Alison Knowles, Jed Curtis, and Agna Redemann. Higgins composed Twenty-Seven Episodes for the Aquarian Theater to the Recognition of Antonin Artaud when he studied in the class of John Cage who taught experimental composition in The New School, New York from 1957 to 1959. Six episodes out of this work were premiered in 1959 by The Audio-Visual Group, which Higgins formed with Al Hansen in New York.
