Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary EditionWesleyan University Press, 01.01.2012 - 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 |
Composition | 57 |
Forerunners of Modern Music | 62 |
History of Experimental Music in the United States | 67 |
Erik Satie | 76 |
Four Statements on the Dance | 86 |
On Robert Rauschenberg Artist and His Work | 98 |
Lecture on Nothing | 109 |
Lecture on Something | 128 |
45 for a Speaker | 146 |
Where Are We Going? and What Are We Doing? | 194 |
Indeterminacy | 260 |
Music Lovers Field Companion | 274 |