MetaFilter posts tagged with JohnCage and music Posts tagged with 'JohnCage' and 'music' at MetaFilter. Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:22:53 -0800 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:22:53 -0800 en-us 60 80 years of electronic music, heard in a selection of 55 tracks by Bleep A bit over a year ago, Warp Record's digital music shop, <a href="">, presented their guide to recorded* electronic music, spanning from 1930 to 2010</a> (also <a href="">as a Facebook timeline</a>, which apparently <a href="">kicked the whole thing off</a>). The overview of recorded electronic music was presented as <a href="">a selection of 55 tracks</a>, almost five and a half hours in full. Part of this presentation was a (now expired) promotional deal to purchase the collection of songs as a lot, but you can still read about each piece of music on Bleep and <a href="!/album/Bleep+A+Guide+To+Electronic+Music/8214796">hear 49 of the tracks in a playlist on Grooveshark</a>. There's more to hear and read below the fold. The selection starts with what is "[a]rgued to be first piece of <a href="">the purely electronic music written expressly for live performance on the Ondes Martenot</a>, an instrument closely related to the Theremin," then transitions through the years of sampling, soundtracks and experimental music, takes to the dance floor in the 1980s, and goes on from there. * <a href="">The <em>full</em> history of electronic instruments go all the way back to 1759 for the 'Clavecin &#0201;lectrique'</a>, or the Electronic Harpsichord, and earlier still for the elusive <a href="">Denis d’or</a>. The <a href="">history of audio recordings</a> has a <a href="">separate timeline</a>. And of course, there are <a href="">many other notable moments in the history of electronic music</a> that weren't captured in the selection of a mere 55 songs. A couple additional notes, as you read and/or listen to the playlist: The Grooveshark playlist is missing the following 6 tracks, linked here from YouTube: #32 <a href="">LFO - LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)</a> #36 <a href="">Autechre - Flutter</a> #42 <a href="">Boards of Canada - Roygbiv</a> (fan-made vid) #43 <a href="">Aphex Twin - Windowlicker</a> (and if you haven't seen it: <a href="">the 10:35 long NSFW video</a>) #50 <a href="">Skream - Midnight Request Line</a> #52 <a href="">Burial - Archangel</a> <a href="">Here's a post about Charanjit Singh's pre-Acid House use of the TR-303 and TR-808</a>, in India in the album <a href="">Ten Ragas To a Disco Beat</a> (<a href="">YT playlist</a>). <a href="">This Divine site clearly states that Love Reaction was made in two versions, one modeled on Tainted Love</a>, unlike the Bleep description which claims it is unclear which came first. Here is <a href="!/s/Love+Reaction+Calypso+Version/3gvoC6?src=5">the "calypso" version of Love Reaction</a>, which can be found on the <a href="">Shoot your Shot</a> compilation that came out a decade after the original Love Reaction, so it's unclear if this is the other original version or a later re-make. You can hear some of the early (1975 and before) tracks played alongside contemporary (experimental) electronic music in <a href="">Bleep Podcast #055</a> with <a href="">Margot Didsbury, who is currently the head buyer for</a>. This podcast comes from <a href="">NTS (Nuts to Soup) community radio</a>, and has a great college radio vibe. The <a href="">Bleep podcasts</a>, now up to #086, come from a variety of sources and feature different hosts, so the music presented is in no way homogeneous.,2013:site.131506 Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:22:53 -0800 24HourExperience 4hero 808State Actress Afrika AfrikaBambaataa AGuyCalledGerald AphexTwin ArthurRussell ArtOfNoise Autechre Bambaataa Barron BasicChannel BebeBarron Beltram BizzyB Bleep bleepbloopbleep bleepityblip BoardsOfCanada BrianEno BruceHaack Burial Cage CharanjitSingh ClaraRockmore Coldcut Dabrye DaphneOram DinosaurL Divine Drexciya electronic electronicmusic Fennesz FourTet FrankieKnuckles Galaxy2Galaxy GAS Haack IannisXenakis InnerCity InnerzoneOrchestra JamesBlake JDilla JeanJacquesPerrey JeanMichelJarre JoeyBeltram JohnBaker JohnCage KarlheinzStockhausen Knuckles LFO LouisBarron Messiaen Model500 MortonSubotnick music OlivierMessiaen Phuture PierreHenry PierreSchaeffer PopolVuh RobertHood Rockmore Schaeffer SelahCollins Shannon Skream Snd Stockhausen ThrobbingGristle Warp WarpRecords Wiley Xenakis filthy light thief "I have nothing to say, and I am saying it." John Cage, 9/5/1912 - 8/12/1992 In honor of the 100th birthday of iconoclastic composer John Cage (<a href="">previously</a>),<a href=""> NPR asked 33 musicians about the effect Cage has had on their art</a>. The <em>Los Angeles Times</em> has a <a href="">tour</a> of Cage's travels and experiences in his native city. MeFi's own <a href="">speicus</a> has a long and excellent <a href="">essay</a> up at about the performer-composer relationship Cage shared with pianist David Tudor (who premiered, among other Cage works, <em><a href="">4'33"</a></em>). And if you've always wanted to play <a href="">prepared piano</a> and lack an instrument you want to fill with nuts and bolts, <a href="">there's an app for that</a>.,2012:site.119647 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:04:37 -0800 4'33 composer composition davidtudor johncage losangeles music piano preparedpiano the_bone Cage Music Walk <i>To celebrate John Cage's centenary, <a href="">10 pieces of music</a> by <a href="">10 different composers</a> have been created, inspired by <a href="">10 places</a> close to the Royal Albert Hall.</i> As part of the <a href="">Proms for 2012</a> (previously: <a href="" title="An intimate evening ... with 6000 friends">2010</a>), the BBC have created a <a href="">Music Walk</a> based on the work of John Cage. Via <a href="">Max Reinhardt</a> of Radio 3's <a href="">Late Junction</a>.,2012:site.117704 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:14:47 -0800 alvincurran alwynnepritchard bbcproms claudiamolitor composers daifujikura davidsawer joecutler johncage johnwoolrich judithweir music proms rolfwallin royalalberthall soundintermedia tansydavies timhopkins smcg Cage does Cage <a href="">Nicolas Cage performs John Cage's 4'33"</a>,2012:site.116463 Wed, 30 May 2012 12:52:30 -0800 4'33 cage cages johncage music nicolascage silence elgilito "Everything we do is music." <a href="">John Cage Unbound, A Living Archive</a> is a multimedia exhibition created by the New York Public Library documenting their collection of <a href="">videos</a>, original notes and <a href="">manuscripts</a> of contemporary American composer and music theorist <a href="">John Cage</a> (1912-1992). "Cage believed that, following his detailed directions, anyone could make music from any kind of instrument" so the NYPL is asking visitors how they would bring his music to life, by submitting videos of their own interpretations of Cage’s work for possible inclusion in the archive. For more extensive collections of John Cage resources, see: <a href="">WNYC: A John Cage Web Reliquary</a> and Josh Rosen's <a href="">fan page</a>. <a href="">Wikipedia</a>'s page on him is quite extensive, and notes: <i>"A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde."</i> <a href="">John Cage Database</a> Here's a nice <a href="">playlist on Youtube for some of his works,</a> including (of course) <a href="">4'33"</a> which was highlighted <a href="">previously</a> on <a href="">MeFi</a>.,2012:site.114964 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:52:21 -0800 4'33 archive cage composer composers database greenaway johncage joshrosen kostelanetz library manuscript manuscripts music musician nypl petergreenaway recordings reliquary rosen video videos wnyc youtube zarq Trimpin: Musical Sculptor Seattle-based German artist Trimpin makes sculptural musical instruments. He was <a href="">profiled in a mini-documentary by Washington public TV station KBTC</a> a couple of years ago. Here are videos of some other works of art he's created, <a href="">Fire Organ</a>, <a href="">Liquid Percussion</a>, <a href="">Cello, Sensors and Record Players</a>, <a href="">Contraption at Seattle-Tacoma Airport</a>, <a href="">MIDI-controlled Player Piano</a> and <a href="">Sheng High</a>. Kyle Gann wrote <a href="">an essay by that placed Trimpin in the tradition of John Cage, Harry Partch and other avant-garde American musical inventors</a>. The audio of a nearly hour and a half long 1990 interview with Trimpin by Charles Amirkhanian can be <a href="">downloaded from the Internet Archive</a>. Another, <a href="">more light-hearted interview</a> in connection to his show at this year's SXSW, where a documentary about him premiered (<a href="">trailer</a>).,2009:site.81393 Mon, 04 May 2009 13:32:29 -0800 art avantgarde CharlesAmirkhanian HarryPartch JohnCage music sculpture sound soundsculpture Trimpin visualart Kattullus The Music Text Composition Generator <a href="">The P22 Music Text Composition Generator</a> allows any text to be converted into a musical composition. This composition is displayed in musical notation and simultaneously generated as a midi file. The P22 Music Composition Font was proposed in 1997 to the <a href="">John Cage Trust</a> as an accompaniment to the <a href="">John Cage text font</a> based on the handwriting of the composer. The idea was basic and simple-every letter of the alphabet was assigned to a note on a scale. This would allow for any text to be converted into musical notation.,2009:site.78718 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:52:36 -0800 composition JohnCage music notation Sailormom It's the oboes that really brought life to the performance, don't you think? John Cage's <a href="'33%22" title="Wikipedia.">4</a>'<a href="" title="Interesting article by Peter Gutmann, where, among other salient points, he offers: 'I've heard Mozart's dozen mature piano concertos dozens of times each over dozens of years, but right now I can recall only a few of their melodies. I heard the Cage piece just once (and three decades ago), but I remember it so vividly.">33</a>" has been discussed <a href="" title="The 'who-holds-the-copyright-on-silence' flap, from 2002.">previous</a><a href="" title="Not about the piece in question, but another wonderful and very whimsical Cage piece.">ly</a> on MeFi, but you might've missed the <a href="" title="MySpace video. Opens with commentary that's, well, perhaps a little better than what you'd expect for TV... Opening commentary from BBC radio link is better.">full</a> <a href="" title="BBC news article, with some background info on the event and the piece.">orchestral <a href="" title="RealPlayer audio link, from BBC radio. Included here mainly for the brief opening commentary, which is a bit more intelligent and informative than the commentary preceding the televised version.">version</a>.</a> 4'33" has shown itself to be a hugely influential work if only for the fact that so many people <i>know</i> of it. The piece is often referenced in MeFi comments, sometimes appearing in unrelated or only tangentially related threads. Here's a small sampling: <a href="">jpoulos</a>. <a href="">jfuller</a>. <a href="">mr_crash_davis</a>. <a href="">jfuller</a>. <a href="">evanizer</a>. <a href="">skwm</a>. <a href="">kozad</a>. <a href="">wheelieman</a>. <a href="">sotonohito</a>, and immediately following sotonohito's comment in that thread, <b> languagehat</b>, <b>LooseFilter</b>, <b>dydecker</b> and more, in what turns into a lively discussion of this <i>still controversial</i> piece of music.,2007:site.64945 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:03:27 -0800 composer johncage music silence surprisinglyPolarizing! flapjax at midnite Very Slowly <a href="">"To play this motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities."</a> <a href="">Erik Satie</a>'s <a href=""><i>Vexations</i></a> (<a href="">previously</a>) was more-or-less disregarded as an <a href="">unperformable thought experiment</a>, until John Cage staged an <a href="">eighteen-hour performance</a> in 1963. The event cemented Satie's importance in avant-garde music and his <a href="">influence</a> on a <a href="">generation</a> of <a href="">artists</a>. In 2006, several musicians and artists <a href="">performed their own renditions</a>.</a>,2006:site.57371 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:00:09 -0800 alvinlucier brianeno enduranceart eriksatie experimental johncage music performanceart ubuweb roll truck roll No, I'm not sure how they get it to not devolve into a wall of feedback... though that'd be pretty rad too. <a href="">A Piano In A Gallery.</a> <a href="">David Cunningham</a> (the guy behind <a href="">The Flying Lizards</a>! Wikipedia because the <a href="">main at-least-quasi-official site's down</a>, but while you wait 16 days for that, why not read <a href="">this interview with Deborah Lizard</a> for your FL Fix</font>) and his new project... <a href="">A Piano In A Gallery</a>. No, he's not actually PLAYING the piano -- the visitors are. It's a sort of similar thing to both <a href="">Brian Eno</a>'s gallery <a href="">work</a> <a href="">with ambient tape</a> <a href="">loops</a> on different time cycles, creating an ever-shifting collage of sound and <a href="">David Byrne</a>'s recent <a href="">Playing The Building</a>. The room is mic'd, and the sound is run through a piano, and amplified, both bringing background noises to the foreground AND creating feedback-style loops, as those sounds are also run into the mics and so forth. So... if you happen to be in <a href="">London....</a> <a href="">[via WFMU]</a></font>,2006:site.53026 Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:05:19 -0800 4'33 ambient audio avant-garde cartergallery dada experimentation feedback johncage microphone music noise sound Rev. Syung Myung Me As Slow As Possible. <a href="">E and E-sharp will end tomorrow.</a> Only <a href="">631 and a half years to go</a>.,2006:site.51394 Thu, 04 May 2006 11:55:22 -0800 AsSlowAsPossible Halberstadt JohnCage music organ arse_hat Rhythmic Research Fellows <a href="">American Mavericks:</a> Fascinating radio piece about the <a href="">ultra-modernist </a> composers, narrated by Suzanne Vega. [more inside],2006:site.49673 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:24:17 -0800 henryCowell johnCage music suicideOnAnAirplane toneClusters Squid Voltaire <a href="">John Cage</a>'s representatives try to <a href="">claim copyright on silence</a>. [Ref: <a href="">4'33"</a>]<br /> Okay.,2002:site.18137 Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:57:12 -0800 433 copyright johncage music Su