Today is John Cage's 100th Birthday. I was looking for his home page to post on the library Facebook page and found it.
johncage.org
In clicking around and through the site, I selected Indeterminacy and this was what was displayed:
"I went to hear Krishnamurti speak.
He was
lecturing on how to hear
a lecture.
He said,
“You must pay
full attention to what is being
said and you can’t do
that if you take notes.”
The
lady on my right was taking
notes.
The man on
her right nudged her and
said, “Don’t you
hear what he’s saying?
You’re not
supposed to take notes.”
She then
read what she had written
and said,
“That’s right.
I have it written down
right here in my notes.”"
When the process of note-taking distracts us from the process of listening. When the process of doing distracts us from listening. I don't agree with all of Cage's philosophy of approaching music and composition. But he worked and hung out with a lot of the same people that Stefan Wolpe did and like Wolpe has much to say on the relationship of opposites, sound and silence, movement and stillness.
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We celebrated Cage's 100th by eating our cake and playing it too!
http://youtu.be/qwsk8DT0Svs
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