As John Cage once recalled, there were four musicians in the early 1950s who, because of their deep interest in art, associated closely with the New York School of painters: Edgard Varese, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman, and Cage himself. This book explores the interaction and influences of the visual arts on these four seminal composers.
As John Cage once recalled, there were four musicians in the early 1950s who, because of their deep interest in art, associated closely with the New Y...
Mainly mesostics inspired by music, mushrooms, Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McCluhan, etc. and includes "Mureau"- - composed from the writings of Henry David Thoreau. "Ordinary people brood over their failings and try to correct them; talent puts its failings to work. John Cage is not a powerful logician or rigorous thinker in the linear sense, but that has not kept him from being widely regarded, at age 60, as the most disturbingly original musical mind (if not the best composer) that America has produced since Charles Ives..Cage's most characteristic compositions probably...
Mainly mesostics inspired by music, mushrooms, Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McCluhan, etc. and includes "Mureau"- - composed from the wr...
One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them," he attempts in X to create looser structures in both life and art, to free "my writing from my intentions." "The New Grove Dictionary flatly states about Cage: 'He has had a greater impact on world music than any other American composer in the 20th century.' An observation that even Cage's most violent detractors would probably not dispute." -- Peter G. Davis, New York Magazine
One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them...
"I was obliged to find a radical way to work -- to get at the real, at the root of the matter," John Cage says in this trio of dialogues, completed just days before his death. His quest for the root of the matter led him beyond the bounds of the conventional in all his musical, written, and visual pieces. The resulting expansion of the definition of art -- with its concomitant emphasis on innovation and invention--earned him a reputation as one of America's most influential contemporary artists. Joan Retallack's conversations with Cage represent the first consideration of his artistic...
"I was obliged to find a radical way to work -- to get at the real, at the root of the matter," John Cage says in this trio of dialogues, completed ju...
John Gage (1912-1992), einer der bedeutendsten experimentellen Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts, hat in diesen Texten analoge Kompositionsprinzipien wie auf dem Gebiet der Musik angewendet. Meine Absicht war dabei oft, heit es in seinem Nachwort, das, was ich zu sagen hatte, so zu sagen, da es anschaulich wurde; dadurch wrde es begreiflicherweise dem Zuhrer eher mglich sein, zu erfahren, was ich zu sagen hatte, als wenn er darber nur etwas hrte. Die Vortrge sind formgebunden, nicht an der Aussage ber etwas interessiert, sondern an der Vergegenwrtigung des Auszusagenden selbst. Das hat die...
John Gage (1912-1992), einer der bedeutendsten experimentellen Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts, hat in diesen Texten analoge Kompositionsprinzipien ...
