John Cage

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Essay by David Toop, Mixmag, October 1992
Ambient music: not just a soundtrack for the chill-out room, more a sound of the future. David Toop gets deep. Very deep. ...
David Grubbs: Records Ruin The Landscape – John Cage, The Sixties And Sound Recording
Book Review by Frances Morgan, The Wire, June 2014
JOHN CAGE can always be relied upon for a good quote. Here an apparently lighthearted comment, in which the composer compares sound recordings to postcards ...
The Avant-Garde's Woodstock: The International Carnival Of Experimental Sound, 1972
Book Excerpt by Dave Thompson, 'June 1st, 1974', 2013
Excerpt from the book June 1st, 1974: Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico, Eno, Mike Oldfield and Robert Wyatt – The Greatest Supergroup Of The Seventies ...
Comment by David Stubbs, The Wire, June 2005
David Stubbs on discovering that humour and music do mix ...
John Cage: National Theatre, London
Live Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 24 June 1978
THE LIGHTS went down in London's National Theatre and a bearded, slightly stooped guy in blue denims came on, sat at a lecture table and ...
Laura Kuhn (ed.): The Selected Letters of John Cage
Book Review by Tim Page, New York Review of Books, 27 October 2016
THERE ARE CERTAIN creative figures whose mature works are almost tangential to their enduring artistic influence. Marcel Duchamp falls into this group, as does Andy ...
John Cage & Brian Eno: A Meeting of Sound Minds
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, September 1985
BRIAN ENO is waiting in the calm, green courtyard between his apartment and studio, just a short distance from London's trend-setting King's Road. Under the ...
Tributes to John Cage: The Kennedy Center Concert and Ninth Street Crossings
Report by Paul Yamada, Washington Review, June 1983
WHAT CAN you say about a 70-year-old wiseacre, whose public persona exudes sensitivity and dogma, insight and fatuousness? And what can you say when that ...
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