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Music News and Columns
about 1 year ago

Firstly, Music News : Music News (More) || RSS Sons & DaughtersPolly ScattergoodGallon DrunkHell is for HeroesUndercutJay Jay PitoletELFGeorge PringleThe Bookhouse BoysSam IsaacThis week my column is something a little different, I've moved out of Indie Rock and it's a description of a demonstration of John Cage's Prepared Piano I saw during the Melbourne International Arts Festival, read it he...

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Music News and Columns
about 1 year ago

Firstly, Music News : Music News (More) || RSS Sons & DaughtersPolly ScattergoodGallon DrunkHell is for HeroesUndercutJay Jay PitoletELFGeorge PringleThe Bookhouse BoysSam IsaacThis week my column is something a little different, I've moved out of Indie Rock and it's a description of a demonstration of John Cage's Prepared Piano I saw during the Melbourne International Arts Festival, read it he...

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John Cage Performing On "I've Got a Secret"
over 2 years ago

WFMU's Beware of Blog has posted this old clip of Avante Garde coposer John Cage performing his piece "Water Walk" on the game show "I've Got a Secret." Enjoy!

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Here Comes Everything
over 2 years ago

This is the universe in a nutshell. Or at least Ireland in a nutshell.More than HPSCHD or any of the Europera performances, this is a recording that succeeds in evoking what John Cage was trying to demonstrate on an aesthetic level...something about the variety of sounds in the world and their occasional poignant characteristics transcending traditional musical sensibilities. Unlike other sound...

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Does anybody on here have a red button that works?
7 months ago

Mine either spin round and round offering the sound of silence, or play the tune in ten second snippets, separated by long silences

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Understanding Eno (part 2) -The John Cage influence...
11 months ago

SeeqPod - Playable SearchYou may wonder why I'm having you listen to 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. Perhaps you'll notice the clicking of mice around you as you work, the hum of the AC, your co-worker chewing loudly. I so this to illustrate the rythyms of nature, of the mundane. John Cage actually played (or rather didn't play) this piece in concert. He didn't explain himself, and it ...

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John Cage Performing On "I've Got a Secret"
over 2 years ago

WFMU's Beware of Blog has posted this old clip of Avante Garde coposer John Cage performing his piece "Water Walk" on the game show "I've Got a Secret." Enjoy!

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UbuWeb
over 2 years ago

"UbuWeb":http://www.ubu.com/ is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.All materials on UbuWeb are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights belong to the author(s).UbuWeb is completely free.Expand your mind. Of course, there's plenty of Satie and Cage. I'm checking out "experimental radio ...

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Have a break - The sound of silence
over 2 years ago

"Wikipeadia entry":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%2733%22#4.E2.80.B233.E2.80.B3_No._2

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