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CAGE, John. Silence.CAGE, John. Silence. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 1961. 4to. Original publishers black cloth with facsimile Cage signature in blind to front board and orange title lettering to spine; black price clipped dust wrapper with a series of black and white photographs to rear panel; endpapers with musical score design lifted from a part of Cages Concert for Piano and Orchestra for Elaine de Kooning, pp. [xiv], 3 276, bumping to head and tail of
CAGE, John. Silence. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.1961.
4to. Original publishers’ black cloth with facsimile Cage signature in blind to front board and orange title lettering to spine; black price clipped dust wrapper with a series of black and white photographs to rear panel; endpapers with musical score design lifted from a part of Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra for Elaine de Kooning, pp. [xiv], 3-276, bumping to head and tail of spine and corners, rubbed with a few minor abrasions to front panel of dust wrapper and slight closed tear to head of dust wrapper spine with scuffing to tail; otherwise very good.
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“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
John Cage (1912-1992) is lauded as one of the great authorities of the Post-War Avant-garde, a theorist who described music in a 1957 lecture, “Experimental Music”, as "an affirmation of life — not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living". This collection brings together his views on alternative music, including his theories on the merit of ambient noise and the use of electronic sound.
Included is the famous “Lecture on Nothing”, in which he subtly uses his relationship with Zen Buddhism to form a musical/textual score. By separating his words into four divided columns, 4 "measures" per line are created which can be experienced as either silence or text, thus mimicking his own method of experimental composition.
SKU: 2121542
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