Details about the book
The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art
 | - Auteur : collectif
- Editeur : MACBA
- Année : 2009
- Résumé : The catalogue sets out to show, over 304 pages, Cage’s impact on the things that were happening in his time, in four somewhat open-ended sections. It is a visually descriptive book, although there is not necessarily a direct link between the images and the texts.
The book starts out in the thirties, when Cage began his first compositions and developed the idea of the “prepared piano” (1938), the production of unexpected tones by lodging commonplace objects like nuts and bolts between the strings of a piano.
The next section describes a long period spanning the forties and fifties when, imbued with Zen philosophy, he “invented” silence. Cage often used silence as a musical element, giving sounds an entity dependent on time. In Music of Changes (1951), for piano, different combinations of "sound events" create sequences determined by random agents; in 4’33 (1952), the performers sit facing their instruments in silence during the entire piece, and ambient sounds constitute the music. It was in this period that Cage was connected to Black Mountain College, where worked regularly in collaboration with Merce Cunningham. And from the fifties to the sixties, a period when Cage imparted “experimental composition” classes (which had a strong influence on the activities of Fluxus artists) and started creating multimedia works (light, sound...) and happenings.
Another section of the book covers the late sixties, when Cage went on numerous journeys and began making performances and theatre.
The book also includes a biography and the list of works in the exhibition. - Sortie autorisée : oui
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