From Cage's book "Silence or Indeterminate Noise", "I have nothing to say and I am saying it. Let him who wishes to fall asleep fall asleep." Cage also said that a garbage truck rolling down the street is music to him who has ears to hear it. However, this does not mean that I want to learn how to drive a garbage truck so I can make music.
Gary Digman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart McCoy" Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:41:10 -0000 To: "Lute Net" Subject: Re: John Cage on Lute > Dear Michael, > > It is possible that John Cage achieved something as a composer, but, > if he did, it has escaped me. Cutting strings, performing in > silence, and all those other sad gimmicks are utterly abhorrent. No > doubt he is making some clever, meaningful point, as purport the > forlorn heaps o f modern art junk which clutter the Tate Gallery in > London, but I hate it. It is anti-music, anti-art, anti-culture, > anti-everything to which genuine musicians aspire, and as such, it > is thoroughly worthless. > > Best wishes, > > Stewart. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Stitt" > To: > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:39 PM > Subject: John Cage on Lute > > > > > > Does any one know whether John Cage wrote for the lute in his life > time? > > > > I heard something about a contemporary composer who wrote a > Passaicialle where after each return of the bass motif, a course was > cut with sizzors until all strings were no more. Then silence. > > > -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com [1]http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup References 1. http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/payment/adtracking.cgi?bannercode=adsfreejump01
