Thursday, May 13, 2010
Misseeing is misbeleiving…
In a slight similar vein––this time on the illusion of silence––I finally got around to seeing a "performance" of John Cage's "4'33"". I had heard about it years ago in a music appreciation classes and I will admit it "sounds" better than I had anticipated. But it is a controversial piece. Sort of like being stared at through your ears for four and a half minutes.
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Cognitive Studies,
Culture and News,
Music
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I worked with John Cage and Merce Cunningham's Dance Company. They revolutionized modern dance and the gymnastics of it...the anatomical grace. Cage was a brilliant man in many respects. He sort of open the landscape to New Wave Sensory music. Ah, the good ol' days!
that is "opened"...oops, the bad ol' days of grammar school.
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