Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary EditionWesleyan University Press, 26.06.2012 - 312 Seiten John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant." "He refuses to sermonize or pontificate. What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite. It's what's happening now." –The American Record Guide "There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. Sounds occur whether intended or not; the psychological turning in direction of those not intended seems at first to be a giving up of everything that belongs to humanity. But one must see that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together, that nothing was lost when everything was given away." |
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... beautiful profound object, this masterpiece, have to do with Life? It has this to do with Life: that it is separate from it. (p. 130) This is excellent advice for a young (or not—so—young) composer, or artist in any medium, and one need ...
... BEAUTIFUL DAY What if I ask thirty-two questions? What if I stop asking now and then? Will that make things clear? Is communication something made clear? What is communication? Music, what does it communicate? Is what's clear to me ...
... beautiful, is there between all four any communication? And if there are rules, who made them, I ask you? Does it ... beautiful stop sometime and the only sounds to hear are not beautiful to hear but are ugly, what will happen to us ...
... BEAUTIFUL AND THE UGLY on coon AND EVIL BUT RATHER SIMPLY TO WALK ON “Nor woNDERrNc,” 'ro QUOTE Mnrsrnn ECKHART, “AM 1 mom" on DoiNc SOMETHING wnoNc.” This is the second Tuesday in Sepember of 1958 and I still have quite a lot to say: I ...
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F orerunners of M odern Music 62 | 1943 |
Erik Satie 76 | 1958 |
Edgard Varese 83 | 1965 |
On Robert Rauschenherg Artist and His Work 98 | 1 |
Lecture on Something 128 | 1 |
45 for a Speaker 146 | 1 |
Where Are We Going? and What Are We Doing? 194 | |
Indeterminacg 260 | |