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John Cage & Merce Cunningham

"It's very simple now, because I'm looking forward to seeing you again rather than backward to having seen you recently. That's a happy way to be" __ Cage

John Cage first met Merce Cunningham in 1938 when he was still married to Xenia Kashevaroff. Their paths crossed again in 1942 + Cage invited Cunningham, who was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, to work on a project. Their collaboration turned into a life-long creative + romantic partnership. Cunningham founded his own dance company in 1953 with Cage serving as the company’s music director, a position he held until his death. They staged over 50 dance works together.

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Listening through the Cage/Feldman open-ended conversations, recorded at WBAI studios in New York (1966–67). Cage questioning Feldman’s ‘soft sounds,’ then sudden loud cut-ins, and more. https://archive.org/details/CageFeldmanConversation2

Publication (print): https://underbelly.nu/product/radio-happenings-conversations-1966-1967/
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The first annual John Cage competition was canceled because the organizers couldn't decide whether the tournament should occur inside of a cage, whether the cage was soundproof (as the repertoire was mostly silence), and whether or not the participants had to be named John

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“silences, autour de john cage”: france culture, 16 février 2025

Par Georges Charbonnier

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-nuits-de-france-culture/silences-autour-de-john-cage-9423965

John Cage a fait du silence un véritable terrain d’exploration artistique. Du morceau 4’33” à son recueil “Silence”, il interroge le son et le vide et redéfinit la musique. Cette émission revient sur son influence et la place du silence dans l’art, de la littérature aux monochromes d’Yves Klein […]

infos: ici

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Here's my suggested soundtrack for those watching the Queensland pitch drop experiment. I understand the 10th drop may go any time now. Exciting!

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/cage/as-slow-as-possible-organ-chord-change/

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