21. John Cage Sayings to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I needed it" john cage six times yielding numbers between 1 and 64." john cage, 1990 http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/cage-quotes.html

(This course is being offered on line in September 1999.) John Cage quotations "I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I needed it" John Cage "It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music. Yes, but how? I gave up making choices. In their place I put the asking of questions. The answers come from the mechanism, not the wisdom of the I Ching, the most ancient of all books: tossing three coins six times yielding numbers between 1 and 64." John Cage, 1990 "I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.' " John Cage

22. EPC/John Cage Home Page The Sounds of Silence john cage and 4'33" john cage Composed In America New Albion john cage. Glen Ford's john cage Page. john cage Quotations. SILENCE The john cage http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/cage

John Cage Photo Credit: http://www.libertynet.org/relache/cage.htm John Cage at UbuWeb New Albion: John Cage James Pritchett's Cage Page Online Works Writings Indeterminacy John Cage: An Autobiographical Statement John Cage Quotations Biographical Entries: Lovely Music Catalog BBC Profiles PBS American Masters Page Classical Music Home Page Sound Files: John Cage sound files at UbuWeb Joan Retallack on Gertrude Stein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John cage (Kelly Writers House) About the Author: The Sounds of Silence: John Cage and 4'33" John Cage: Composed In America James Pritchett's John Cage Page - texts about Cage, including a book-length survey of his entire work. John Cage - A Remembrance - by Joseph Franklin. John Cage at the Mattress Factory New Albion: John Cage Glen Ford's John Cage Page John Cage Quotations ... Brown, Claud - the John Cage Residency Project: lecture/recitals featuring Cage's prepared piano music and more; page includes audio clips, other info. I-VI - by John Cage.

23. John Cage Links Lists of works, photographs, discographies, interviews with cage, writings by cage, articles/essays about cage, paintings/visual art by cage, sound files, and videos. http://home.flash.net/~jronsen/cagelinks.html

John Cage Online compiled by Josh Ronsen last update: 2 March 2004 This is a collection of links to infomation on composer John Cage. Please send any corrections and updates to me at jronsen@flash.net If you have any questions about Cage, the perfect place to ask them is SILENCE, the John Cage Discussion List, which can be joined at http://www.johncage.info/silence/ Contents Lists of Works Discographies Interviews with Cage Writings by Cage ... FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Lists of Works Edition Peters a list of works available from his publisher, Edition Peters; scores can be ordered from here. NY Public Library Collection Annotated list of scores and manuscripts in the NY Public Library collection; provides detailed info on each item Larry Solomon's List Detailed list of pieces arranged chronologically and alphabetically Andre Chaudron's List James Pritchett's List A list compiled by James Pritchett IRCAM's List a list of works compiled at IRCAM Discographies/Filmographies Andre Chaudron's Discography New Albion Discography Detailed (but long outdated) disco at New Albion Records picture discography CD discography with cover images and track listings A John Cage Filmography a list of films that feature Cage or his music An older version of that filmography Interviews Cage on Ives 1966 interview with Michael Zwerin, taken from "John Cage, an Anthology"

24. John Cage Biographische Kurzdaten zum Komponisten. http://www.edition-peters.de/cage/

John Cage Solos Duos Chamber Works Works for Orchestra/Large Ensemble ... English text Edition Peters, April 2002

25. American Masters . John Cage | PBS The piece 4'33'' written by john cage, is possibly the most famous and imortant piece in twentieth important composers of the century, john cage's true legacy extends far beyond http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/cage_j.html

I n 1952, David Tudor sat down in front of a piano for four minutes and thirty-three seconds and did nothing. The piece 4'33'' written by John Cage, is possibly the most famous and imortant piece in twentieth century avant-garde. 4'33'' was a distillation of years of working with found sound, noise, and alternative instruments. In one short piece, Cage broke from the history of classical composition and proposed that the primary act of musical performance was not making music, but listening. Merce Cunningham and the painter Robert Rauschenberg A bit of Zen philosophy from John Cage. Black Mountain College , Cage began to create sound for performances and to investigate the ways music composed through chance procedures could become something beautiful. Many of Cage's ideas about what music could be were inspired by Marcel Duchamp , who revolutionized twentieth-century art by presenting everyday, unadulterated objects in museum settings as finished works of art, which were called "found art," or ready-mades by later scholars. Like Duchamp, Cage found music around him and did not necessarily rely on expressing something from within. Black Mountain College Merce Cunningham Buckminster Fuller ... Resource Page

26. John Cage Portrait by Susan Schwartzenberg/The Exploratorium. http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/

Portrait by Susan Schwartzenberg/The Exploratorium Autobiographical Statement Annotated Discography Archives of Silence Here Comes Everybody ... New Albion Records / 584 Castro St #525, San Francisco, CA 94114 / ergo@newalbion.com

27. Cage, John (1912 - 1992) cage, john (1912 1992) A leading American avant-garde musician, john cage won notoriety for his famous silent work, 4'33", for any instrument or instruments. http://www.hnh.com/composer/cage.htm

Cage, John (1912 - 1992) A leading American avant-garde musician, John Cage won notoriety for his famous silent work, 4'33", for any instrument or instruments. Equally controversial was 0'0", ten years later, performed by the composer and consisting of the slicing of vegetables, then put into a blender, with the performer concluding by drinking the juice. Cage has had a considerable influence on younger composers, with his use of chance and indeterminacy, electronic techniques and every possible experimental device, whether musical or dramatic. He combined his interest in music with considerable knowledge of mushrooms and a fondness for bridge and other card and board games. Compositions Cage's compositions are not easily classified. His early use of percussion was a natural corollary of his work with dance groups. Devices used included the prepared piano, pioneered in his 1938 Bacchanale, and followed by a number of other compositions in which various objects are inserted into the piano to create different effects, largely percussive in quality. An interest in Zen and the I Ching resulted in Music of Changes, where chance dictated the choice of notes. Dramatic actions dominate Water Music, for a pianist, who must empty pots of water and perform other feats, while later music makes considerable use of tapes or calls for undetermined forces. Recommended Recordings Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano Naxos 8.554345

28. 4'33" The Sounds of Silence. john cage and 4 33 . copyright © 1998 by Larry J Solomon. References. cage, john, 1961. Silence, Middletown, CT Wesleyan University Press. http://www.azstarnet.com/~solo/4min33se.htm

The Sounds of Silence John Cage and 4'33" ABSTRACT: The purpose of this essay is to examine the aesthetic behind Cage's "silent" composition, 4'33", to trace its history, and to show that it marked a significant change in John Cage's musical thought specifically how it forms a point-of-no-return from the conventional communicative, self-expressive and intentional purpose of music to a radical new aesthetic that informs the field of unintentional sound, interpenetration, chance, and indeterminacy. The compositional process is described, both the writing of 4'33" and its evolution from past thought. Implications for performance are examined, and recommendations are made. Contents A Brief Description and the Historic First Performance History and Philosophy The Turning Point Composition ... Bibliography 1. Brief Description and the Historic First Performance "Good people of Woodstock, let's run these people out of town" (artist at the premiere performance of 4'33" The first performance of John Cage's 4'33"

29. John Cage Autobiographical StatementAnnotated Discography. Archives of Silence. Here Comes Everybody ( November 95, Mills College) New Albion Records / 584 Castro St 525, San Francisco, CA 94114 / ergo@newalbion.com http://newalbion.com/artists/cagej

Portrait by Susan Schwartzenberg/The Exploratorium Autobiographical Statement Annotated Discography Archives of Silence Here Comes Everybody ... New Albion Records / 584 Castro St #525, San Francisco, CA 94114 / ergo@newalbion.com

30. John Cage: An Autobiographical Statement john cage. An Autobiographical Statement. I 1991. It is reprinted here with the kind permission of The john cage Trust, New York. http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.html

John Cage An Autobiographical Statement I once asked Arragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, "You have to invent it." When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me. My father was an inventor. He was able to find solutions for problems of various kinds, in the fields of electrical engineering, medicine, submarine travel, seeing through fog, and travel in space without the use of fuel. He told me that if someone says "can't" that shows you what to do. He also told me that my mother was always right even when she was wrong. My mother had a sense of society. She was the founder of the Lincoln Study Club, first in Detroit, then in Los Angeles. She became the Women's Club editor for the Los Angeles Times. She was never happy. When after Dad's death I said, "Why don't you visit the family in Los Angeles? You'll have a good time," she replied, "Now, John, you know perfectly well I've never enjoyed having a good time." When we would go for a Sunday drive, she'd always regret that we hadn't brought so-and-so with us. Sometimes she would leave the house and say she was never coming back. Dad was patient, and always calmed my alarm by saying, "Don't worry, she'll be back in a little while." Neither of my parents went to college. When I did, I dropped out after two years. Thinking I was going to be a writer, I told Mother and Dad I should travel to Europe and have experiences rather than continue in school. I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

31. The Recorded Music Of John Cage Discography (hosted by New Albion) http://newalbion.com/artists/cagej/discog

For this invaluable ever-expanding Cage discography, New Albion would especially like to thank the following overwhelmingly helpful people: Thom Holmes , the keeper of the flame; Eric S. Theise , the keeper of the keys; The John Cage Trust, New York; South West Review; Lovely Music; the Silence list - and all those who will see fit to help it grow. Music and Time About the Discography The Discography Chronological Directory ... New Albion Records / 584 Castro St #525, San Francisco, CA 94114 / ergo@newalbion.com

32. John Cage: An Autobiographical Statement john cage. An Autobiographical Statement. I once asked Arragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, "You have to invent it." Editor's note john cage delivered "An Autobiographical http://newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.html

John Cage An Autobiographical Statement I once asked Arragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, "You have to invent it." When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me. My father was an inventor. He was able to find solutions for problems of various kinds, in the fields of electrical engineering, medicine, submarine travel, seeing through fog, and travel in space without the use of fuel. He told me that if someone says "can't" that shows you what to do. He also told me that my mother was always right even when she was wrong. My mother had a sense of society. She was the founder of the Lincoln Study Club, first in Detroit, then in Los Angeles. She became the Women's Club editor for the Los Angeles Times. She was never happy. When after Dad's death I said, "Why don't you visit the family in Los Angeles? You'll have a good time," she replied, "Now, John, you know perfectly well I've never enjoyed having a good time." When we would go for a Sunday drive, she'd always regret that we hadn't brought so-and-so with us. Sometimes she would leave the house and say she was never coming back. Dad was patient, and always calmed my alarm by saying, "Don't worry, she'll be back in a little while." Neither of my parents went to college. When I did, I dropped out after two years. Thinking I was going to be a writer, I told Mother and Dad I should travel to Europe and have experiences rather than continue in school. I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

33. Poetic Cities As Cyberspaces Article by Marjorie Perloff. http://128.205.200.100/epc/authors/perloff/cyber.html

back to Marjorie Perloff's homepage (for Festschrift for OB Hardison , Delaware University Press) In Chapter 5 ("Lotus Eaters") of Ulysses , Leopold Bloom sets out from home to begin his circuitous voyage through Dublin. We read: Here is a classic Modernist treatment of the city. At one level, Joyce's fictional mode is one of scrupulous documentary realism: we know exactly where Bloom walks and what shops and buildings he passes; these are, moreover, actual But Joyceand this is again characteristic of Modernismuses his Symbolist urban setting as a stimulus that prompts Bloom's very private stream of consciousness. "Tell him if he smokes he won't grow," he thinks watching the boy with his "chewed fagbutt," and then, being a non-judgmental, kindly type, he thinks better of this reprimand: "O let him! His life isn't such a bed of roses! Waiting outside pubs to bring da home. Come home to ma, da." And that thought, in turn, foreshadows the image of young Dingham's memory of his "da" in the Hades chapter. Toward the end of the paragraph, linguistic play begins to take over. "Met her once in the park. In the dark. What a lark." And then, thinking of Corny Kelleher, the undertaker, Bloom declares playfully: "Bury him cheap in a whatyoumaycall. With my tooraloom, tooraloom, tooraloom, tooraloom." Joyce's Dublin, Eliot's London, Proust's Paris, Thomas Mann's Venice these modernist cities are revealed to us through their architecture. Their materiality is palpable, the settings being startlingly real if not surreal (e.g. Eliot's "A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many/ I had not thought death had undone so many...."), their value is complexly symbolic (Dublin as image of urban paralysis and loneliness, Proust's Paris as locus of class conflict and social climbing, Mann's Venice as the exotic Other); they elicit a new language which is polyglot, sophisticated, intricateand determined to Make It New. In architectural terms, the Modernist city is the

34. AllWatchers.com Face/Off Discussion Detailed analysis of the Nicolas cage and john Travolta film, and links to similar movies. Sign up to be a movie scholar on the site. http://www.allwatchers.com/Topics/Info_4459.asp

Face/Off Movie Review Books Movies Sci-Fi/Fantasy Action Dramas Resident Scholar Profiles TOP SCHOLAR: Charles Smyth SCHOLARS: Jack Morris Mike T. W. Click here to enter a review, become a scholar, and make 50 cents per review! Face/Off Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage Review Summary The film is a classy film about a gangstar who tries to kill a cop but fails and kills his son. So the cop wants revenge but in order to get this the cop has to part with his wife for a while which doesn't turn out very well. But in the end him and his wife get together again and have even adopted a kid called Adam. Jack Morris, Resident Face/Off Scholar John Woo directed this revolutionary action mvie. Choreographed shootouts, extravagant action scenes, drama, and John Woo's trademark "gun ballet" seperate this from other mindless action movies. Mike T. W., Resident Face/Off Scholar John Woo directs this glossy mixture of extreme violence tinged with theatrical sentimentality like he did in his film ‘Bullet In the Head'. In Face Off, the plot revolves around an embittered FBI agent played by John Travolta who, after finally capturing the Troy brothers, Casper ( played by Nicholas Cage ) and Pollox, must use the surgically transplanted face from a comatose Casper to learn the whereabouts of a nerve-agent bomb from an unsuspecting Pollox. Things don't go as smoothly as expected, resulting in some clever juxtapositioning between the two main characters. An interesting film in the way it marries a big Hollywood formula production to the direction of a highly respected Chinese viewpoint.

35. About Andrew Culver Assistant to john cage. Biography and selected works from the Anarchic Harmony site. http://www.anarchicharmony.org/People/AndrewCulver.html

Andrew Culver makes chamber and orchestral music, electronic and computer music, sound sculpture and music sculpture, film, lighting, text pieces and installations. He performs concerts on sound sources of his own invention. He develops databases and software to realize his work, and to make chance operations accessible to others. He also writes about music, art and anarchy. Andrew Culver Culver is the composer of Ocean 1-95 , the orchestral component of Ocean Merce Cunningham 's masterpiece of contemporary dance. Presented at the inaugural Lincoln Center Festival 96, the New York Times called Ocean "beautiful by any definition", and the San Francisco Examiner "a luminous landmark . . . an epic abstraction of manifold and incomparable beauties". Ocean's electronic music is by David Tudor , the lighting and costumes are by Marsha Skinner, and the concept and plan by John Cage and Merce Cunningham, their final collaboration. Culver's music, scored for 112 instrumental soloists in the round, and lasting 90 minutes, consists of 32,067 events spread over 95 compositions in five continuously overlapping layers. Of the music, the New York Times noted that it possessed "the calm of the deep", and that the composer possessed "the same sense of fun [as John Cage]".

36. Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff (Boston Phoenix) Review of Swiss record label hat Art's performances of music by Earle Brown, john cage, Morton Feldman,and Christian Wolff. http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/97/11/13/OTR/EARLE_BROWN_JOHN_CAGE_MO

The Boston Phoenix November 13 - 20, 1997 clubs by night bands in town club directory pop concerts ... hot links **** Earle Brown, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff THE NEW YORK SCHOOL 3 (hat Art) The Swiss record label hat Art continues to release an essential series of New Music recordings, focusing largely on the American composers known as the New York School. This compilation, third in a series, is perhaps the most engaging and instructive of all: pieces by Brown, Wolff, and Cage are played twice each, so as to dramatize the nature of indeterminate composition. Performances of the same piece are not grouped together: the CD goes through them once and then again in reverse order. At the center of this musical palindrome is a dramatic reading of an entertaining and informative essay by Morton Feldman, in which he explains the '50s: "For one brief moment maybe, say, six weeks nobody understood art. That's why it all happened. . . . But there's no place now where you can hide out for six weeks." Hat Art is trying, one hour at a time. Damon Krukowski home page what's new search about the phoenix ... feedback

37. Orange Stoole Chariot - (Experimental Jazz/Punk) Defunct Tampa Bay fusion band playing some combination of eclectic jazz to punk rock. Inspired by john Zorn, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Mr. Bungle and john cage. http://www.brainpuke.com/osc/orstch2.html

News/Shows: 20 Points What We Are: 40 Points Band Bios: 60 Points Our Albums: 80 Points News/Shows: 20 Points What We Are: 40 Points Band Bios: 60 Points Our Albums: 80 Points ... Contact Us: 100 Points

38. Mode Records - A Record Label Devoted To New Music Promoting music by artists such as john cage, Deep Listening Band, and Aki Takahashi. With release profiles and artist links. http://www.mode.com/

39. Chill Out: Essential Ambient & Downtempo On CD An buyer's guide to recommended ambient and related music on CD including reviews of releases by john cage, Tangerine Dream, The Orb and Pete Namlook. http://www.ambientmusicguide.com/

Chill Out Home A-Z CD Reviews Recent Reviews ... Ultima Thule @ 2MBS-FM Chill Out : W e l c o m e Contact the author Mike Watson (aka Mike G)

40. Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . Cage | PBS cage, john Born Los Angeles, 5 Sept 1912 Died New York, 12 Aug 1992 Nationality American composer. He left Pomona College early http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/education/cage.html

Cage, John Born: Los Angeles, 5 Sept 1912 Died: New York, 12 Aug 1992 Nationality: American composer Orchestral music Conc. , prepared pf, chamber orch (1951) Concert for Pf and Orch (1958) Atlas eclipticalis (1961) Renga (1976) 30 Pieces for 5 Orch s (1981) A Collection of Rocks (1984) Instrumental music Amores, 2 prepared pf, 3 perc trios (1943) Str Qt (1950) Freeman Etudes, vn (1980) Piano music Music of Changes (1951) Music for Pf 1-84 (1952-6) Water Music (1952) Winter Music (1957) Cheap Imitation (1969) Etudes australes (1975) Prepared piano Bacchanale (1940) The Perilous Night (1944) Sonatas and Interludes (1948) many others Percussion First, Second, Third Construction (1939, 1940 1941) Credo in Us (1942) Imaginary Landscape no.2 (1942) Electronic Imaginary Landscape nos.1, 3, 4, 5 (1939, 1942, 1951, 1952) Williams Mix (1952) Fontana Mix (1958) Cartridge Music (1960) Rozart Mix (1965) HPSCHD (1969) Roaratorio (1979) Vocal music The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen springs (1942) Aria (1958) Song Books (1970) "Indeterminate resources" 4'33" (1952) Variations I-VII (1958-66) Musicircus (1967) THE GROVE CONCISE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC Copying or other reproduction is prohibited.

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