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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... nature, where, gradually or suddenly, one sees that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together; that nothing was lost when everything was given away. In fact, everything is gained. (p. 8) And, parenthetically, let us ...
... Nature in Art (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1934). 3. Helen VVestgeest, Zen in the Fifties: Interaction in Art between East and West (Waanders Uitgevers: Museum voor Moderne Kunst, 1997), 61 and following. 4. David ...
... nature, where, gradually or suddenly, one sees that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together; that nothing was lost when everything was given away. In fact, everything is gained. In musical terms, any sounds may ...
... or what have you in total sound-space; that we are, in fact, technically equipped to transform our contemporary awareness of nature's manner of operation into art. Again there is a parting of the ways. One has EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC/9.
... nature.) Or, as before, one may give up the desire to control sound, clear his mind of music, and set about discovering means to let sounds be themselves rather than vehicles for man-made theories or expressions of human sentiments ...
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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 | |