John Cage - LP "Indeterminacy" - Folkways FT 3704 & "Silence", classic writings.
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This is a great price on two John Cage classic works. This lot includes the pioneering LP "Indeterminacy" from 1959 and a third edition of "Silence", his famous collection of lectures and writings. Again, this is a very competitive price for these works in this good of condition. Descriptions and reviews below.
"Indeterminacy" -
In 1959 Smithsonian Folkways – a record label more typically associated with folk artists like Peggy Seeger and Woody Guthrie – released Indeterminacy, described as “Ninety Stories by John Cage, with Music.” The set-up was as follows: Cage recited stories, plucked randomly from 90 stories written on cue cards, as David Tudor – playing out of earshot in another room – mashed sections of Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra inside his electronic Fontana Mix.
Cage’s stories – about Zen Buddhism, taking composition lessons with Schoenberg, his love of mushrooms and generally finding sublime pleasures in life’s minutiae – were overlaid onto Tudor’s bitty, non-sequitur boom-splats of music. All life was there – the fascination of boredom, banality collapsing towards whimsy, the curious randomness of accuracy working against/with the even stranger accuracy of randomness. Humor and existentialist melancholy co-existed, perching on a knife-edge. Cage imposed one further rule: each story had to slot inside a one-minute time frame and therefore longer stories needed to be read quickly, while shorter stories were stretched to a counter-intuitive snail’s pace. But few stories actually spanned the one-minute duration comfortably. Cage played tricks with time. Only in the real world do minutes last sixty seconds. Even if they don’t. Or do.
"Silence" -
Silence, John Cage's first book and epic masterpiece, was published in October 1961. In these lectures, scores, and writings, Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing that comes from ideas, is not about them, but that produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching. Fifty years later comes a beautiful new edition with a foreword by eminent music critic Kyle Gann. A landmark book in American arts and culture, Silence has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over half a million copies worldwide.
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