Alarm Will Sound plays Michael Gordon’s Yo! Shakespeare

John Cage’s 1960 performance of Water Walk on CBS TV’s I’ve Got a Secret. In this version, a union dispute prevented the radios from being plugged into the wall. Cage solves that problem during the performance by changing the score.

Click the image to read about this extraordinary piece of music. Pay particular attention to the text. This version was commissioned by Thomas Buckner and is included on Sign of the Times

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We have added a new section, Murals. Each mural was designed to be projected or installed on a wall of any size.

The selection available here will change from time to time.

For additional information on any mural, contact bend of bay.

bendof bay is pleased to provide server space and host the 1994-1999 archive of messages posted to Silence – The John Cage Mailing List. You can access the archive at http://www.bendofbay.org/silence. 

If you have suggestions on a more efficient way of presenting the information in the archive, please let me know by leaving a comment on this post.

For more information on the Silence mailing list, please go to
https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/silence.

Going through the archives I rediscovered a  piece of mail art received in December 2004 from Ryosuke Cohen. It is part of his Brain Cell project. The original is 11 x 17. The image below doesn’t quite do it justice, since my scanner is marginal.  You can see more examples of his work on his flikr page.

The Brain Cell project was started in 1985 and to the best of my knowlege it is still active.  For more information on Ryosuke Cohen, visit his home page. Specific information regarding participation in Brain Cell is at the bottom of the page.

Some time ago, Ralph Lichtensteiger sent a message to SILENCE, the John Cage mailing list, requesting ”… stories about your experience with the phenomena of Silence and noise …”  

The result is Silence/Stories, a print ready 66 page pdf file that includes the stories, images and bios of the contributors. Contributors represent a wide array of backgrounds. Some worked with John Cage. Others wrote about him, or used some of his methods and ideas in their own work.  (Full disclosure – this post was written by a contributor, although not one of those referred to in the previous  two sentences). Some stories include anecdotes or responses to John Cage, and others describe “Cage influenced listening.”  You can downdoad the PDF here  or here.

I have just set up a bookstore, of sorts, using Amazon’s new aStore service. The link also appears in the sidebar. The store is quite simple and generally features authors and music I happen to care about or to be listening to at the moment.  As with every other link on these pages, any commissions I collect are donated, in turn, to one of two food banks in New Jersey, U.S.A.

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