Spector books john cage biography
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Writing the Ephemeral.
John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing as a Landmark in Media History
Establishing the Program(matics): Lecture on Nothing
Nevertheless, 4’33” is not the first piece in which Cage mastered writing the ephemeral: that would be his 1950 Lecture on Nothing, held for the first time after having encountered tape, but two and three years respectively before the debuts of 4’33” and Williams Mix. Cage’s lecture has been quoted above because it theoretically reflects the impact of the new electroacoustic media on musical perception and the prcoesses and methods of composers. The possibility of technically capturing, storing, distributing and, on all of these levels, manipulating any and all sound regardless of form not only allows for whole new sounds and noises to be musically discovered, but demands new modes of writing. This level of reflection in content, however, becomes even more apparent in the lecture’s form, for it arises from—mutatis mutandis—the very same means of composition as 4’33” subsequently does.
In the foreword of Silence, Cage’s first collection of writings and lectures, published in 1961, he programmatically writes:
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Black Mountain [en]
An Interdisciplinary Check out 1933 –1957
Eugen Blume/Catherine Nichols/Matilda Felix/Gabriele Knapstein
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Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933 – 1957, 5 June – 27 September 2015, Nationalgalerie hassle Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
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Black Mountain [Reprint]
An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933 –1957
Eugen Blume/Matilda Felix/Gabriele Knapstein/Catherine Nichols
The interdisciplinary and experimental educational ideas espoused by Black Mountain College (BMC), founded in North Carolina in 1933, made it one of the most innovative schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture, and music were all taught here on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. The first rector of the school was John Andrew Rice, and Josef Albers, John Cage, Walter Gropius, and Buckminster Fuller were among the many adepts to give courses here. In consequence, BMC witnessed the development of a range of avant-garde concepts. This richly illustrated book appears in conjunction with the Black Mountain exhibition. It is the first comprehensive publication on BMC in the German-speaking world and traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school.
Text: Gabriele Brandstetter, Brenda Danilowitz, Arnold Dreyblatt, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Matilda Felix, Mary Emma Harris, Gabriele Knapstein, Annette Jael Lehmann, Catherine Nichols, Andi Schoon, Craig Schuftan, Alice Sebrell