For other pieces, he used a grand piano he had outfitted with sound-altering objects placed on and between the strings. "This was a prescient endeavor," editor Laura Kuhn writes in the introduction to the John Cage Trust's Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham ($24.95). 1, relies on turntables, static and test tones. An early work, 1939's Imaginary Landscape No.
Only such a curious, contrary mind as Cage's might seize on substitution after the fashion his experimental compositions took. Which ones can we take? Which ones can we give?" We are getting rid of ownership, substituting use.
"Continue," the diary begins, "I'll discover where you sweat (Kierkegaard). Immediately I tracked down a copy of Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) at my local library and devoured its kaleidoscopic text it's now available in an expanded paperback edition from Siglio Press ($24). On the track "An Open Cage," bassist Florent Ghys transfigures a recording of Cage reading aloud from his diary into an avant-garde musical performance to match and enhance the elder composer's prosody. The first time esteemed 20th-century composer John Cage came to life for me, I was listening to the Bang on a Can studio album Field Recordings.
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