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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... Experimental Music / 7 Experimental Music: Doctrine / 13 Composition as Process / 18 1. Changes / 18 II. Indeterminacy / 35 III. Communication / 41 Composition / 57 T0 Describe the Process of Composition Used in Music of Changes and ...
... experimental music is preferable to classical music, or that you should enjoy audience coughs and babies crying as much as a sym— phony, or that he, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown Were the only composers in the 1950s ...
... Experimental Com— position at the New School for Social Research in New York, where his students (including Toshi Ichiyanagi and his wife Yoko Ono) would go on to form the FluXus movement, which pioneered conceptual art under his ...
... Experimental Music in the United States” (1959). Experimental music is a term greatly propagated by Cage. Many composers have objected to it (most vociferously, Bobert Ashley);11 Cage talks, at the beginning of his “Experimental Music ...
... experimental music is superior or prefer— able to nonexperimental music, or at least more timely. It turns out that the only composers whose music Cage approves as truly experimental—that is, necessary—are his friends Christian Wolff ...
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13 | |
35 | |
57 | |
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 | |