The Roaring Silence -- John Cage: A Life

Turner, Steve Sweeney; Revill, David

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“…The practice of experimental music is difficult to categorise, and lacks a specific school of thought, or aesthetic stance (Gottschalk, 2016). According to Cage (1961), experimental music is not concerned with self-expression, but rather, self-alteration (Kostelanetz, 1989(Kostelanetz, , 1996Retallack, 1996;Revill, 1992), where surprises and discoveries are welcomed and explored (Lucier, 2012), possibly expanding one's perception of potentials and possibilities (Gottschalk, 2016). Therefore, to give the above-mentioned adolescent patients clinical context, the clinician explained that a music therapy group focusing on an experimental musical/sound-based exploration would centre on inquiry, openness, uncertainty, and discovery (Holmes, 2015;Nyman, 1999).…”

Section: Clinical Experimental Musicmentioning

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Who’s afraid of Christian Wolff? Exploring experimental music on an acute inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit

Curreri

2020

AIJMT

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In this practice-based article, the author summarises how he explored experimental music with creative arts-curious adolescent patients to help improve interpersonal interactions, impulse control, compliance, and attentional needs. Informed by the American composer of experimental classical music Christian Wolff, the author constructed an original clinical experimental music composition, Burdock Variations and Other Wolff, to be recreated in music therapy group settings on an acute psychiatric unit.Unexpectedly, the results of the experimental music group therapy experience revealed that (a) while aesthetic needs and development were not part of the patients’ treatment team goals, the experimental musical experience played an indispensable role in cultivating, shaping, and meeting the aesthetic needs of each patient in a safe therapeutic environment, (b) due to challenging the teens’ aesthetic system (Curreri, 2013) by exploring new and unusual sound practices together, the therapeutic relationship that had been developing in more standard music and other creative arts interventions deepened between the teens and the author, (c) the Burdock Variations and Other Wolff exploration is an advanced music therapy intervention that should be introduced after more standard music therapy interventions have been explored, and (d) the Burdock Variations and Other Wolff exploration should only be introduced to the adolescent patients that are able to remain focused, curious, and attentive.

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Section: Clinical Experimental Musicmentioning

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Who’s afraid of Christian Wolff? Exploring experimental music on an acute inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit

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2020

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The Epistle of 4'33"

Liu

2017

Music and the Generosity of God

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Separation anxiety: metaphoric transmutations from a paradoxical biological instrument, or: What is a cactus doing in our concert hall?

Rudy¹

2001

Org. Sound

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In its original rendition, Degrees of Separation: “Grandchild of Tree” (1998) is performed with cactus, outboard digital effects, and CD playback, with simple lighting. The work is a metaphor which portrays subtle transformations (or transmutations) in human existence precipitated by pervasive new technology. A new version consists of a performance with a video component and all electronics fully automated in MAX/MSP on a Macintosh Powerbook. Development of this work, and subsequent versions, have proven invaluable for my own approach to the music I compose, and for the understanding of my position in the contemporary world of computers, technology and art. This paper attempts to describe these discoveries through outlining the levels of symbolism and metaphor in the work as realised through source abstraction (both visually and aurally), spatialisation and (re-)contextualisation. It begins with the question: What is a cactus doing in the concert hall?

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The Roaring Silence -- John Cage: A Life

Cited by 26 publications

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Who’s afraid of Christian Wolff? Exploring experimental music on an acute inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit

Who’s afraid of Christian Wolff? Exploring experimental music on an acute inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit

The Epistle of 4'33"

Separation anxiety: metaphoric transmutations from a paradoxical biological instrument, or: What is a cactus doing in our concert hall?

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