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Includes lectures, essays, diaries and other writings, including "How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)" and "Juilliard Lecture."
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Paperback, 179 pages
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May 1st 1967
by Wesleyan University Press
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Zen inspired composer, writer, teacher, artist John Cage was one of the most inportant and challenging artists in the 20th century. His music challenged centuries old concepts of music and performance and his his zen influence was ever present. His writings are superb displays of a brilliant mind, a classic wit and a gentle spirit.
another book i come back to every few months
these writings are alarmingly prophetic, and his poetry is beautiful and inventive.
sounds aren't people, they're sounds, silly!
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2 stars for turning me onto the music of Toshi Ichiyanagi
Recommended by James Schall in Another Sort of Learning, Chapter 14, as one of Two Books by John Cage.
A collection of Cage's writings and interviews. Cage's writings always make me laugh, even though I skip most of his texts in graphic formats.
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He was gifted with a sunny disposition...
Cage has an amazing take on sound and hence, on life.
É um livro difícil de acompanhar pra pessoas que, como eu, não tem muito conhecimento da vanguarda do pós-guerra ou de música contemporânea. Mas vale pelas idéias de Cage sobre a incorporar à obra o ruído, o acaso, tudo o que sempre foi considerado não-obra. Isso vale inclusive para a forma como ele escreve, usando o I Ching e outros geradores de padrões para criar as regras dos seus textos. O resultado é que às vezes uma história fica sem começo nem fim, mas o propósito é justamente esse.
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Finally got to this - having had it on my shelf for absolutely years. As much a headfuck and a treat by the type and design as for the content. Brilliant composer and diarist and thinker and writer.
Wholesale fustian platitudes. I prefer Cage's letters.
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John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He
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“Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.”
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“I was twelve years old. I got out my bicycle and road over to KFWB. They said, ‘What do you want?’ I said, ‘I’d like to give a weekly radio program for the Boy Scouts.’ They said, ‘Are you an Eagle?’ I said, ‘No, I’m a Tenderfoot.’ They said, ‘Did the Boy Scouts send you?’ I said, ‘No, I just got the idea and came over.’ They said, ‘Well, run along.’ So I went over to KNX. They liked the idea and arranged a time for the first program. I then went to the Boy Scouts, told them what had happened, and asked for their approval and cooperation. They said it was all right to give the program but that they would not cooperate. In fact, they never did. Every time I asked for the Boy Scout band, they said No. Individual Scouts all gave their services willingly. There were boy sopranos; trumpet, trombone, and piano soloists; and Scouts who spoke on their experiences building fires and tying knots. The volume of fan mail increased each month. After two years, the organization called up KNX, said they’d never authorized the program, and demanded that I be put out and they be put in. They were. The band finally played. A few weeks later, KNX took the program off the air.”
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