X: Writings '79-'82

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Wesleyan University Press, 1983 - 187 Seiten

One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them," he attempts in X to create looser structures in both life and art, to free "my writing from my intentions."

 

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Writing for the Fourth Time through Finnegans Wake
1
There is not much difference between the two Suzuki Daisetz
51
An Alphabet
55
Another Song
103
Writing through the Cantos
109
Untitled
117
B W 19161979
119
Composition in Retrospect
123
For her first exhibition with love
153
How to Improve the World You Will Only Make Matters Worse Continued 19731982
155
Wishful Thinking
171
Muoyce Writing for the Fifth Time through Finnegans Wake
173
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Autoren-Profil (1983)

Composer John Milton Cage, Jr., is best known for his avant-garde music, including pieces such as Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) in which 12 radios are turned on intermittently. His 1943 premiere concert of percussion buzzers, pottery and scrap metal, all chosen for their potential sound. Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912 and studied music privately, becoming a teacher at the Chicago School of Design in 1941. Between 1944 and 1966, he was musical director at Merce Cunningham and Dance Co., and in 1949 he won a Guggenheim fellowship. Cage wrote Virgil Thompson: His Life and Music (1959). His essays and lectures on music were collected into several books, including Silence: Selected Lectures and Writings (1961) and A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings (1967).

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