Saturday 1 January 2011

John Cage

John Cage, M: writings '67-'72

"M is, to be sure, the first letter of many words and names that have concerned me for many years( music, mushrooms, marcel duchamp, M.C.Richards, Morris Graves, Mark Tobey, Merce Cunningham, ...)"







"I love sounds, just as they are, I have no need for them to be anything more, than what they are, I dont want them to be psychological, I dont want the sound to pretend that is a bucket, or that is a president, or that is in love with another sound,...

John Cage about silence






George Brecht - Drip Music




Mimique. A Pierrot story. The Pierrot character associates silence with whiteness. The two most remarkable and typical features of the Pierrot are that it tells its story in silence and that his face is white (neutrality or utter coldness?). Throughout the history of the Pierrot story, silence and whiteness are inextricably linked.

http://www.cobussen.com/proefschrift/300_john_cage/316_cage_and_silence/316a_cage_white_mallarme_silence/cage_white_mallarme_silence.htm

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