The Radical Curiosity of John Cage—<i>Is the word ‘music’ music</i>?

Retallack, Joan

doi:10.1080/07494467.2016.1150554

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“…From this perspective, a book is a stable object, while an eBook or other text is different each time it is "opened" and displayed on a screen. art: see, for example, Braune 2012, Brown 2012, Edmeades 2016, Gillott 2020, Patterson 2002, Retallack 2015, Spinosa 2016, Thompson 2003, and Weaver 2012, among earlier studies by Perloff 1981 andothers. 4.…”

Section: Indeterminacy In Digital Textualitymentioning

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Methods for Exploring Indeterminate Textuality in John Cage’s Practices of Bibliographic Encoding

Lischer-Katz

2023

Textual Cultures

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The increasing ubiquity of algorithmically mediated digital texts continues to generate debate about the instability and indeterminacy of texts. The American composer John Cage is well known for disrupting traditional Western aesthetics by incorporating chance operations, algorithms, and indeterminacy into his musical compositions and literary texts. This article analyzes materials found in the pre-print archive of Cage’s printed book, M (published in 1973 by Wesleyan University Press), in order to understand how Cage brought his aesthetic of indeterminacy into print. Through analysis of archival materials, it is argued that Cage exercised control over the performance and reading of his texts, even as he ceded authorial control to the aleatory processes of the I Ching — the ancient Chinese book of divination — and to the arbitrary choices of the typesetter/printer. This article offers new understanding about algorithms and indeterminacy in the performance of bibliographic codes.

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Section: Indeterminacy In Digital Textualitymentioning

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Methods for Exploring Indeterminate Textuality in John Cage’s Practices of Bibliographic Encoding

Lischer-Katz

2023

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“…His passion for silence in music comes both from his interest in Eastern and Western spirituality. His readings on the Hindu mystic Sri Ramakrishna, and on the medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart, who emphasised silence as expression of the divine (Retallack, 2015).…”

Section: John Cage and The Influence Of The Zen Philosophymentioning

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The Mutual Influence between Asian Cultures and American Minimalist Music: An Essential Channel for Aesthetic Exchange

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2022

MJM

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This research aims to show the mutual influence between Asian cultures and American minimalist music. This cultural exchange that started with John Cage, before continuing with Toru Takemitsu and then, Tan Dun, has been a fruitful channel of communication for new compositions in both continents. The paper explores the close connection between early minimalist composers (Reich, Glass, La Monte Young, and Terry Riley) and Asian music and philosophies (Zen Buddhism and Spirituality) as well as some of the ramifications of these traditions over the past five decades. The concept of minimalism was first applied in the arts as a return to simplicity, in tune with Asian philosophies. For some artists, the practice was already present in Asian arts before it appeared in the West. The minimalistic endeavour starts with the experimental works of Cage and Feldman; followed by the movement “Fluxus”. This coincided with what is often considered early minimalism, leading to the great variety of styles and mix of compositional techniques employed by current Asian composers influenced by American minimalism. This paper also analyses the use of minimalism in the Western and Asian curriculum.

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The Radical Curiosity of John Cage—Is the word ‘music’ music?

Cited by 2 publications

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Methods for Exploring Indeterminate Textuality in John Cage’s Practices of Bibliographic Encoding

Methods for Exploring Indeterminate Textuality in John Cage’s Practices of Bibliographic Encoding

The Mutual Influence between Asian Cultures and American Minimalist Music: An Essential Channel for Aesthetic Exchange

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