Lectures and writings, 50th anniversary edition kindle edition by cage, john, gann, kyle. Silence, john cage s first book and epic masterpiece, was published in october 1961. John cages 433 is a solemn justification for what many at the time and since perceived as a prank or a hoax. He published silence in 1961, which included lectures and writings from the period 19391958.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. This collection of essays and presentations by noted composer and musical innovator john cage attempts to capture on paper both the intellectual and stylistic creativity with which he approached his work. Silence lectures and writings by john cage by john. First performed at the midpoint of the twentieth century, john cages 433, a composition conceived of without a single musical note,is among the most celebrated and ballyhooed cultural gestures in the history of modern music. All of the essays in it were written between 1967 and 1972 44. Lectures and writings by john cage wesleyan university press, 1961. The notion of silence or as cage philosophizes, the lack thereof has informed both my thinking and my playing. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading silence. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. David revill john cage is considered one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. No such thing as silence by kyle gann overdrive rakuten. David revill composer john cage is often described as the most influential musician of the last halfcentury. The audience at the world premiere was prepared to listen to this piece divided into three movements. John cage at the university of illinois, 195269, 1999.
John cage 1912 1992 was an american composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and provocative artist. John improvised the instruments he worked with, resulting in the unique music that he produced. First of all studying a book is good but it really depends in the content from it. He is considered to be the most distinguished american composers of the 20th century by critics. John cage is the outstanding composer of avantgarde music today. This acclaimed book by john cage is available at in several formats for your ereader.
Trawling through cages writings and examining the score and performance of the piece, gann elaborately reconstructs the genesis of 433 in the hope of making a case for it as a serious, galvanising work. This is a classic book of writings by john cage, mostly about music and art. John cage was a renowned american musician, philosopher, writer, artist and music theorist. 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. What john cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more funa kind of carefree skinnydipping in the infinite. John cage s 433 icons of america kindle edition by gann, kyle. Silence by john cage, 9780714510439, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. There is always something to see, something to hear. John cages 433 icons of america free epub, mobi, pdf ebooks download, ebook torrents download. The sight of silence at the national academy museum in new york city duration. The library, photographed by james daubney in the cagecunningham loft, has now been carefully catalogued and can be explored here. John cage silence lectures and writings, 50th anniversary. But cage never thought of himself as only or even primarily a composer. Silence, a year from monday, m, empty words and x in this order form the five parts of a series of books in which cage tries, as he says, to find a way, isbn 9780819560285 buy the silence ebook.
The piece was composed in august 1968 and revised in may 1973, and is an example of process music. Silence is a collection of some of the essays and lectures that have made john cages name synonymous with all that is unpredictable and exciting in contemporary miusic. These are extracts from the 50th anniversary edition of silence. Silence is a collection of some of the essays and lectures that have made john cage s name synonymous with all that is unpredictable and exciting in contemporary miusic. Pendulum music pendulum music for microphones, amplifiers speakers and performers1 is the name of a work by steve reich, involving suspended microphones and speakers, creating phasing feedback tones. John cage opened my mind to the importance of listening hearing what is not there, the space between sound, and how silence is the backdrop which gives sound the time and space to. When composer john cage wrote 433 four minutes, thirtythree seconds, it would become his most famous and controversial piece. He has defined and continues to define our whole concept of avantgarde, not just in music but. When the great avantgardist john cage died, just short of his eightieth birthday in 1992, he was already the subject of dozens of interviews, memoirs, and discussions of his contribution to music, music theory, and performance practice. If youre familiar with cages ideas, youll want to read these texts, some of which can be a bit offputting by their form. Nuova versione john cage silence book pdf aggiornata.
Here thing why that silence lectures and writings by john cage are different and reliable to be yours. In these lectures, scores, and writings, cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing that comes from ideas, is not about them, but that produces them. John cage has 94 books on goodreads with 18335 ratings. I framed a copy of the score and it hangs in my house.
The page numbers in brackets in the introduction to each extract refer to that book. A meditation on the act of listening and the nature of performance, cages controversial piece became the iconic statement of the meaning of silence in art and is a. A year with john cage how to get out of the cage documentary, 2012 duration. John cage, a leading figure of the american musical avantgarde and lecturer and writer extraordinary, dedicated himself to the search for new horizons in musical composition. John cage, 433, performed by william marx cage continued to develop his theories on silence and chance events throughout his voluminous body of work well into his eighties, influencing many contemporary musicians along the waytoru takemitsu, philip glass and steve reich to name but a few.
If youre familiar with cage s ideas, youll want to read these texts, some of which can be a bit offputting by their form. What john cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more funa. The american record guide there is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. John adams, in his memoir hallelujah junction, describes how a reading of cages 1961 book silence encouraged him to drop out of east coast academia, pack his belongings into a vw. Silence, his 1961 collection of essays, manifestoes and wry anecdotes, proved to be one of the most widely read and influential texts ever. Snyder interviewed cage, wrote the first doctoral thesis on him in 1970, contributed the cage timeline to richard kostelanetzs monograph, john cage, authored several other works on the composer, and was the dedicatee of cages piece, one. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading no such thing as silence. Deceptive cadence watch and hear a handful of clips that form an introduction to the master provocateurs work. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. His work and ideas have influenced not only the world of music but also dance, painting, video art, printmaking. September 5, 1912 august 12, 1992 was an american composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher.
Silence isbn 9780819560285 pdf epub john cage ebook. Cages personal library, housed at the john cage trust, is a reflection of his wide ranging influences and interests. Beautifully and cryptically inscribed by cage to longtime friend ellsworth snyder, on the printed front endpaper. Pianist david tudor walked out on stage on august 29, 1952, in woodstock, ny, sat down at the piano and closed the lid. In silence, he explains a lot of the techniques he used when composing, and discusses the value and meaning of music. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and nonstandard use of musical instruments, cage was one of the leading figures of the postwar avantgarde.
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