John Cage
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Beat Generation...of Robert Rauschenberg. Cage's "chance operations" approach was very similar to the "cut-up" technique that Brion Gysin developed and that William Burroughs adopted (after publishing Naked Lunch). For example, in "Minutes to Go," a... In this article: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Beat Hotel, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, On the Road, Neal Cassady, Lucien Carr, and Beat |
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Christian Science Monitor | March 06, 2008
Robert Wilson's still lives in motion (barely) csmonitor.com
...operas. His style is marked by controlled movement and stillness within movement - beauty contained and delineated through formal lines and shapes, Wagnerian in scope but containing John Cage's sensibility for silence. Raised in Waco,...
In this article: Robert Wilson, VOOM HD, Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp, Chewing gum, and E mail
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Wikipedia | October 02, 2009
Sound collage
...the new possibilities. Iannis Xenakis is the first well-known composer to have worked with sound collage; other early artists who experimented with it include John Cage, Brion Gysin, and William S. Burroughs. The most famous examples in...
In this article: Amplitude, Georges Seurat, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Iannis Xenakis, Horacio Vaggione, and New York City
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The Australian | August 16, 2009
From the Apple of my ear to the core of cacophony
...it must have sounded. Cage wanted to liberate music from his own tastes, his own concerns and his ego. He wanted to be indeterminate. As it has been pointed out, in the early 1950s he was not: Jackson Pollock was splattering paint and...
In this article: IPod, Apple, Sony Walkman, Bay Area Rapid Transit System, Beatles, Columbia University, Jackson Pollock, and Rio Tinto
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Michael Andre
...and New York. He interviewed, published, and occasionally socialized with W. H. Auden and Eugene McCarthy, Beats like Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, and homosexual esthetes like John Cage and Andy Warhol. He is...
In this article: Michael Andre, Unmuzzled OX, Gregory Corso, Denise Levertov, W. H. Auden, Andy Warhol, University of Tulsa, Columbia University, Elodie Lauten, and New York City
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Sylvere Lotringer
...struggles. Lotringer realized that America could be these theorists' testing-ground. Playing chess in the West Village with John Cage, Lotringer sensed similarities between Thoreau and the "chance operations" being practiced by Fluxus,...
In this article: Semiotexte, Jean Baudrillard, William S. Burroughs, Paul Virilio, New York City, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Columbia University
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Giorno Poetry Systems
...and Philip Glass as well as unique performances by Frank Zappa, Diamanda Galas, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, and Brion Gysin, as well as Giorno and Burroughs. In the 1990s, Giorno Poetry Systems released a box set collecting its recordings...
In this article: John Giorno, William S. Burroughs, Giorno Poetry Systems, Andy Warhol, Brion Gysin, Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunningham, and Roy Lichtenstein
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The Poets' Encyclopedia
...John Chamberlain on junk sculpture, and William Burroughs on junk or heroin. As The New York Times said, it "includes Everything (page 82) and Nothing (page 196)." Unmuzzled OX, the publisher of The Poets' Encyclopedia, attempted as a kind of...
In this article: Unmuzzled OX, Junk food, Heroin, Russell Edson, Richard Kostelanetz, Sonja Skarstedt, William Burroughs, George Bowering, and Margaret Atwood
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John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives.
Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition "4′33″", the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. The content of the composition is meant to be perceived as the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, rather than merely as four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence, and the piece became one of the most controversial compositions of the twentieth century. Another famous creation of Cage's is the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by placing various objects in the strings), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces, the most well-known of which is Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48).
- Birth Date:
- September 05, 1912
- Birthplace:
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Death Date:
- August 12, 1992
- Place of Death:
- New York City, New York, United States
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