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Re: OT Now We Will Hear Freedom
I was going to say "Silence" :
I LOVE this book, I actually carry it with me WHEREVER I go!
That and "A Humament" By Tom Philips. They are my random pack.. Unfortunately Silence is looking very raggedy now, it being softback.
I have never read the whole book, and on the whole I hate "dip in" books, you know, books that are filled with cool er... sig files, but not much content. Silence is like that however, (I hate for example that someone at my work has bought some posters that are pictures of Andy Warhol (done in an Andy Warhol Style of course) and covered in Andy Warhol quotes.
But Cages book works, its not just some marketing, buzz word thing. Its more like a Zen thing, big things said in short, almost meaningless ways.
I stole the book from my Art college about 25 years ago, mainly for the typographic layout, the way that the "lectures on nothing" are divided into 4 columns makes it possible for you to read verticaly as well as horizontally for a different meaning.
Cage was so inspiring to me as a child (ok teenager) , the quote originally quoted by Rick is exactly the sort of thing that stood out to me, as a short, almost aggressive daring thing to say, and as a young and daring teenager, exited me to think that we were living in this exact period when the rules of music were finally (after hundreds of years) falling down, and that Cage suggesting that silence was music, meant that, THAT was where we could all start again, from silence, and build up music again from nothing.. not from some arbitrary rules from the previous century.
I think Art was going through the same revolution at the same time (60's) but doesnt seem to have fared so well, we STILL see blank canvasses, and grand ideas, in sterile galleries, by big, famous has-beens, and the Art World is even harder to break into as a new, unconnected young artist
Cage is God
Shhhhh...
Mark
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Jeff Duke
<jeffloops@gmail.com> wrote:
Good ol' Google.
From a book "Silence: Lectures and Writings" by John Cage
page 87: http://tinyurl.com/283p4vq
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=0819560286
j
Hello All,
Anyone have an idea of the context of that quote?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tEd ® KiLLiAn <tedkillian@charter.net>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: OT Now We Will Hear Freedom
> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:54:31 -0800
>
>
> Wonderful quote there Rick.
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> Best,
>
> Ted
>
> On Nov 26, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Rick Walker wrote:
>
> > Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long
> > been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music.
> > Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with
> > electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom.
> >
> > - John Cage
> >
> >
> > A wonderful quote from the maestro himself. In a way, live
> > looping tools have
> > really done wonders to further this quest for the emancipation he
> > talks of, don't you think?
> >
>
Mark Showalter
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