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Subject: Re: Cage 100
From: "Tony Whitehead" soundings23
Date: Thu Sep 6, 2012 8:54 am ((PDT))
Is it attempts to present moments that are past -  "dead" - in a fixed
manner through a recording that can be repaeted continually without change
- "paralyised" - that Cage refers to in that intriguing last sentence? If
so, I think I might have some sympathy with that view.


On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Bernie Krause <>wrot=
e:

> John Cage had views on many issues re sound, music, and our acoustic
> world. For instance, his take on natural sound recording: In 1989, at
> a soundscape conference hosted by Skywalker Sound (LucasFilm), Cage
> was asked for his impressions of those creating "nature" sound albums
> who claim to be "purists," meaning they assert that they don't edit.
> Cage thought for a moment, then responded tersely and rather
> disparagingly, =93Found art," he sniffed. "That=92s because all true
> artists know that germane to their respective crafts is
> transformation: the inspired conversion of sound or image from one
> medium to another, or ideas from mind to page -- ultimate expressions
> far more resounding than the sources from which they spring. It is
> through the process of insurgency that art in any medium obliges
> insight into the numinous and improbable. Transformation is the key to
> life and [its expression through] art, the real mystery of creative
> nature. Attempts to replicate or capture aspects of the natural world
> without amendment speak clearly to a vision of paralysis and death.=94
>
> Bernie Krause
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> On Sep 6, 2012, at 5:33 AM, Michael Dalton wrote:
>
> > Howdy!
> >
> > Just a short note about John Cage.
> >
> > Nearly fifty (wow, fifty!) years ago, John Cage presented a program
> > at the college I attended in the upstate hills of New York. Several
> > people walked out. I listened as he began with a script and then
> > started a series of recordings on several tape recorders. It was an
> > existential program, which like many works of art, took a while to
> > digest.
> >
> > While I was not an arts student, the experimental approach was
> > appreciated by this science student. I continue to experiment with
> > sound.
> >
> > For those of you who recognize my signature as well as others, that
> > means listening to recordings of spontaneous speech by talking
> > birds. Following Cage's lead, I have discovered meaning in many
> > recordings, because, believe it or not, many parrots are learning
> > language. Several years ago, I would be laughed off the stage.
> > Thanks to pioneers like Cage, I have been able to be heard at
> > scientific and general "art" gatherings to understand the mind of
> > another species through recorded speech. Thank you Professor Cage!
> >
> > Mike
> > Florida
> > http://www.parrotspeech.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > Cage 100
> > Wed Sep 5, 2012 5:26 am (PDT) . Posted by:
> > "Mark" seoulgypsy
> > Fowarding this fantastic work by Lawrence Johnson
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Happy hundredth birthday, John Cage. Congratulations to all who knew
> > and/or learned from this wonderful man.
> >
> > To commemorate this day, I wrote some short texts. I hope it's okay
> > to share one with you-- a verbal =93passacaglia=94-- and provide a link
> > to the others.
> >
> > =3DLawrence Johnson
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> > sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> > Krause.
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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