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Form and the irrational

By Ryan | Published October 1, 2010

Found this great drawing1 that John Cage did to describe his throughts about the rationality of the mind/concept and the irrationality of the form. Figured it was relevant for the thesis process I am going through right now.

1Bernstein, David W.. “John Cage and the “Aesthetic of Indifference”.” In The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, V. 5.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge, 2001. 119.

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Final Project – Research – John Cage

By Ryan | Published December 11, 2009

After hearing my psychogeographic sound maps, I decided to further investigate John Cage’s work in notation and sound. Dancers on a Plane: Cage Cunningham Johns had detailed discussions of Cage’s work, Concert for Piano and Orchestra, and included many pages of his notation for it. Here are a few examples: Cage made these notations by [...]

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