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• cage on books...

  
  airform archives — Authority: 117
  "books one picked up and put down over a period, say, of ten years, picking them up on the eleventh to discover the impossibility of putting them down. whats the arithmetic of this?" john cage, in "numerals", exhibition catalog, 1978, yale university gallery.
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• Four or Five Chess Machines

  
  Serial Consign — Authority: 110
  [Wolfgang von Kempelen / The Mechanical Turk / 1770] The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind. - Arpad Elo , 1962. Attack and sacrifice, ...
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• Is It Supersonic?

  
  Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans — Authority: 417
  I’m a big fan of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, but I wasn’t aware of this odd film featuring Kirk and John Cage, with Cage providing the libretto and some of the mix and overdubs to Kirk’s music. Some people think Kirk is just a freak show, the man who can blow three horns and play a 23 minute saxophone concerto without ...
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• The Sklansky Minute and John Cage’s Indeterminacy

  
  Hard-Boiled Poker — Authority: 127
  Our buds Special K and Falstaff have a new podcast, peoples. It’s called the Gambling Tales Podcast and Episode No. 1 is now available. I’ve been up to my eyeballs with work, but am going to be listening to this sucker (finally) in the car this morning. I’m reading that there is some November Nine ...
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• The lost art of listening

  
  On An Overgrown Path — Authority: 464
  Music for young people. The Art of Listening . Dr George Firth director of Scotland of the Arts Council for Great Britain. Mary Firth (pianist). An Opportunity for those under 35. This last item, The Art of Listening , was a favourite subject, often repeated. In Sir George Trevelyans view listening was as ...
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• Henry Cowell: A Teacher’s Legacy

  
  Slow Painting — Authority: 420
  Henry Cowell Which composer exerted the greatest influence on 20th-century American classical music? Thursday and Friday, Other Minds, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to such music, will make the case for Henry Cowell. Cowell, who died in 1965, was a prolific composer whose own music was eclipsed by ...
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• Best promo EVER

  
  Startling Moniker — Authority: 124
  Tom has outdone himself now. Here’s his “official” promo clip for KNOBS, followed by an unofficial one– the aforementioned BEST PROMO EVER:and…I can’t wait to send this to Sonny!
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• As the world turns

  
  Paris Parfait — Authority: 113
  As the world turns, Selfridges, London. Ten years ago today, David and I met in New York. A few months later, my daughter Jordana and I moved to London. A year after that, we moved to Paris, for Davids job...
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• Why People Still Hate John Cage

  
  Synthtopia — Authority: 541
  John Cage is the subject of a new museum exhibition in Barcelona. The exhibit looks at Cage’s works in various media and his impact on all forms of contemporary art. The New Yorker’s Alex Ross shares his thoughts on the highlights of the exhibit – but also raises this conundrum: The great oddity of ...
  3 weeks ago

• “All Together Now” Festival line-up

  
  Startling Moniker — Authority: 124
  If you somehow missed it, I’m performing the world premiere of John Cage and Lejaren Hiller’s “KNOBS” this Wednesday, as part of the “All Together Now” inter-arts festival. So far, I’ve been quiet about other activities happening (and this IS a HAPPENING) so check out the schedule:WEDNESDAY is our ...
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• Guilty Feet Have Got No Rhythm: 20 Slumberland Memories, Part 2

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 142
  The Aislers Set Slumberland Records , the locally formed label that has released some of the best, noisiest indie pop ever pressed to seven-inch, turned 20 this year, and it’s celebrating all weekend. Tonight’s show at the Black Cat features current Slumberland bands Crystal Stilts , Brown Recluse , ...
  3 weeks ago

• More Fun Historical Tidbits

  
  Sonic Granades — Authority: 122
  Yesterday, I brought you a bit of musical history restored. Today heres a bit of musical history that you no longer have to dig for. Life Magazine is all on google books and all searchable. That means that the legendary review of Cages percussion concerts from the early 1940s is now available at the click of a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Protecting an artist’s legacy: maximize the income from his works, or seek to embody his art? Moral rights and the successors to John Cage.

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 417
  One of the more remarkable “copyright” fights has, literally, been over silence. The copyright issues are interesting, but I’m particularly interested in the insights provided by Lewis Hyde that I recently came across and the way they bear on a lawyer’s duty to pay as much or more attention to a client’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Water Walk by John Cage

  
  Letter to Jane — Authority: 116
  I saw this on Dangerous Minds and thought it was fantastic. Like a lot of other people, I’ve always been a huge fan of John Cage, and I’d never seen this video of his appearance on the old game show, I’ve Got a Secret, it’s a bit too surreal. Post from: Letter to Jane Water Walk by John Cage
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• Without Merce

  
  InfiniteBody — Authority: 428
  Can Modern Dance Be Preserved? by Arthur Lubow , The New York Times , November 8, 2009 InfiniteBodyhttp://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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• Guest Perspective

  
  Above the Fold | Music, Video, MP3 | MPLS — Authority: 139
  I asked my brother to take time away from his incessant composing schedule to write an analytical tidbit for the blog. Here it is: Un-Cage Your Musical World By Troy D. Ramos I once heard Thom Yorke  describe his lyrics “fridge buzz” as a reference to the musical saturation we are ...
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• The Most Disturbing Halloween EVER!: Aphex Twin’s Ambient Terror

  
  Popdose — Authority: 616
  At times it’s difficult to classify the sound created by Richard D. James – better known as Aphex Twin – on his sophomore release, Selected Ambient Works Volume II , as music. Yes, there are moments of melody and occasionally a slight rhythm, but what are lacking are any familiar song structures — or ...
  5 weeks ago

• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

  
  sonja thomsen photographs — Authority: 119
  There was SO much to take in at the Reina Sofia. Standing in front of Picassos Guernica was memorable, pinch me Im here moment. Below are a few other highlights of my brief visit to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia... Street photography by Francesc Catala-Roca at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte ...
  5 weeks ago

• Speaking of Modern Artists...

  
  ANABlog — Authority: 138
  Christies is selling a few Jasper Johns that belonged to Merce Cunningham & John Cage on November 11th. The sale will benefit Merces trust, and you can peruse the Johns here . ( Stubbs book could just have easily been titled Why People Get Jasper Johns But Dont Get John Cage , no?)
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• Aimless Reading: Literary Magazines, Part 1 (AERIAL 6/7)

  
  Pearlblossom Highway — Authority: 125
  AERIAL 6/7 Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher AERIAL 6/7 Rod Smith, Editor I think I bought this at Talking Leaves...Books, but I am not sure. I may have bought it for one of Charles Bernsteins classes. Its a reminder of how good a well made, thoughtfully designed, and carefully edited book actually feels ...
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