John Cage

2 Responses to John Cage

1. It’s good to return to John Cage. His music crosses all the artificial boundaries that society places in the way of artistic expression and collaboration.

   Comment by Andrea Moorhead on 10 June, 2024 at 2:45 pm

2. “Sing That”
   for John Cage and Joan Retallack

   There
   of change visible
   of speeding it up, yes,
   But you’re not
   you mean,
   Yes. But.
   Would be in that spirit

   than depending on
   doing, hmmm?

   Yes happening.

   looks like the
   world is not so much images, as
   Ships
   together at some moment,
   an essay by
   A Chinese Child’s
   Sense of the
   Perhaps

   Of speeding it up. Yes, I like that.

   Are you going to get the phone?
   (resigned laugh)

   New
   (pause)
   meaning
   O.K.
   (Long Laughter)

   No, we don’t have to forget entirely.

   performance
   points.
   We don’t know
   degrees.
   dimensionally.
   you’re
   you
   again, through chance operations
   you’re basically shifting
   the
   answers, or
   I
   would change something
   for self-alteration.

   gets up to check what’s cooking.
   That’s my general practice.

   Yes,
   he does.
   mind makes.

   (in a very faint voice)
   that again.

   had freight cars
   the freight cars coal, for
   each freight car.
   So each freight car
   Well, whatever

   So
   say, nothing; or
   gamut

   is, play
   the tone
   Lullaby.

   already
   was
   pianist

   the pianist’s
   chance–

   enclosed a
   violin–
   a very high note.

   what
   of them
   some
   From

   imperceptible
   the E
   sense

   Why up?
   I don’t know

   –Impossible can be done…yes…

   (pointing to manuscript page)

   Stone, hmmm?
   I
   And
   The Surface.

   Everything
   All
   Empty
   On the edge of–
   Emptiness–
   Emptiness.

   Yes. And will defy, or bring together, opposites.
   (Pause.)
   Pushing against that edge then always

   Reading Marks.

   (smiles) Mmm.

   A virtue?
   A virtuoso!

   Are you coming back?
   (a bit reluctantly) Yes.

   Like our zip codes.

   (Long laughter.)

   repeating.
   I couldn’t do that.

   You
   new ways
   Are
   Yes.
   Yes, isn’t that beautiful

   And
   by using
   I started doing.

   sing that.

   Comment by Jesse Glass on 12 June, 2024 at 9:14 am

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