John Cage (ex)plain(ed)Writer/composer/performer/painter/poet are just a few hats that the musician John Cage (1912-1992) wore through his long and productive life. For over five decades, he changed the shape of American art and culture by pushing the envelope of what could be called "art". Quietly, working at the edges of acceptability, often ridiculed and rarely performed at first, Cage grew to be the most influential of all American artists, influencing not only composers and fellow musicians like Philip Glass, but also performance artists such as Laurie Anderson and Yoko Ono and visual artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. This book presents Cage's life and works in all media, explaining the workings of one of our greatest creators. -- Describes Cage's major works in all media, including musical works, theatrical pieces, radio works, visual arts, and poetry and prose -- Draws extensively on interviews with Cage conducted by the author and not previously published |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 21
Seite 150
Radio has so receded from cultural view that we can rarely speak of any
broadcast as a "cultural event," but that epithet was an accurate description for
the first New York City broadcast of the complete version of John Cage's
Roaratorio.
Radio has so receded from cultural view that we can rarely speak of any
broadcast as a "cultural event," but that epithet was an accurate description for
the first New York City broadcast of the complete version of John Cage's
Roaratorio.
Seite 151
Whereas some Cage pieces have contained much less sound than music used
to have, others have contained much more; for Cage was at different times a
prophet of both minimalism in art and abundance. Roaratorio falls securely into
the ...
Whereas some Cage pieces have contained much less sound than music used
to have, others have contained much more; for Cage was at different times a
prophet of both minimalism in art and abundance. Roaratorio falls securely into
the ...
Seite 152
To my taste, Roaratorio is as significant as HPSCHD; indeed, as a masterpiece
on a masterpiece it ranks among Cage's very best works. Given the low interest
in exploratory acoustic art in American radio, "public" as well as private, it is no ...
To my taste, Roaratorio is as significant as HPSCHD; indeed, as a masterpiece
on a masterpiece it ranks among Cage's very best works. Given the low interest
in exploratory acoustic art in American radio, "public" as well as private, it is no ...
Was andere dazu sagen - Rezension schreiben
Es wurden keine Rezensionen gefunden.
Inhalt
KJohn Cage Inventor | 3 |
Fomenter of Radical Consciousness | 9 |
TU Works | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
5 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abundance acoustic American arias Arnold Schoenberg artistic audience audiotape aural avant-garde beginning Cage wrote Cage's Cage's music Cagean chance operations chaotic choreographer composed composition critic dance dancers David Tudor Earle Brown electronic Empty Words Erik Satie essays esthetic Europera experience film Finnegans Wake hear heard horspiel HPSCHD ideas Imaginary Landscape imaginative Indeterminacy indeterminate innovation instruments Jasper Johns Jill Johnston John Cage language lecture listening Marcel Duchamp masterpiece Merce Cunningham mesostic Millrose Games Monday Morton Feldman multitrack Mureau musical theater musicians nonetheless nonhierarchical Notations once opera original percussion performance piece play poetry politics possible prepared piano produced prose radical radio record Roaratorio score Silence singers Solo for Voice someone Sonatas and Interludes Song Books sounds space spectators stanzas stories structure tape theater theatrical theme things Thoreau thought tion told tones traditional twelve visual art Williams Mix 1952 Writings Through Finnegans York