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Article: Regretting John Cage and Kenneth Gaburo: a gathering of texts. (In Memoriam John Cage)
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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AN EPIGRAPH FOR JOHN CAGE
What John Cage is about is not Zen; it is experimental existentialism. It profoundly uses onsite trashing conventional ritual occasions and forms and systems through which social substance is infrastructurally bolstered to force pitiless confrontation with out-there voidness. Listeners composers performers undergoing extreme exertion or even more extreme nonexertion under the unyielding imperative of strenuous rigors meticulously detailed, stringently demanding, random-processually generated, globally undecipherable. Anticulture not alternative culture. Sound you have to hear, that you can't exactly hear; sound that you strain to ...
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Transcript: Profile: Music of John Cage
NPR All Things Considered;
September 5, 2003 ;
700+ words
... ... FREYMANN-WEYR reporting: John Cage once wrote, `In Zen ... Two years ago today, on John Cage's birthday, a performance ... past. We have here a sound that also is almost eternal ... percussive beat. Mr. JOHN CAGE (American Composer ...
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