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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... painter Marcel Duchamp; this is the incident referred to at the end of “On Bobert Bauschenberg, Artist, and His Work” (p. 107). Luckily, the dancer Jean Erdman offered him her apartment. Erdman was working with the pianist David Tudor ...
... painter Paul Klee: “I want to be as though new—born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing, about Europe” (p. 65). In 1951 he began using the I Ching to determine the disposition of musical materials, thus removing himself from the ...
... paintings are well worth seeking out. Morris Graves (1910—2001) was a mystic and Zen enthusiast who lived in the Seattle area and painted, mostly pictures of birds. He met Cage by attending one of his percussion concerts and creating ...
... painter who cofounded the progressive Italian art group Fronte Nuovo delle Arti. Guy Nearing (1890—1986) was a horticulturalist, writer, poet, landscape painter, and chess master; also the author of The Lichen Book. Maurice Grosser ...
... paintings of Bob Rauschenberg, the dancing of Merce Cunningham, films, slides, phonograph records, radios, the poetries of Charles Olson and M. C. Richards recited from the tops of ladders, and the pianism of David Tudor, together with ...
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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 | |