“The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.” — John Cage
silence · ears · leaf · society · writing · rivers · failures · listen · words · company · pollution · noise · discipline · variable · audience · trees · deep · sleep · prison · birds · food · beauty · dice · merrimack · river · atlas · mud · water · education · resistance · pencil · piano · centers · streaming · wave · process · coin · time · no-thing · dance · economy · limits · apples · dramatic · conductor · welcome · hospitality · urbanization · winter
— 49 Words (for John Cage), Ralph Lichtensteiger, 2001
If ink markings on mute paper can ever be called a life form or even its surrogate – books come most startlingly alive when authors move away from their own immediate lives.
Talk to yourself, let the words pour out: Allow some words to be of one person and allocate other words to another person. This is what I call “defining character-based dialogue”, it is also a form of allocating stray thoughts toward a building of ideas!
— George Henry Köhler, Creating Metafiction, Part two
The gaze of old woman seeing the lost world of her childhood
palm trees
her overlit eyes pointed to final plastic
coracle jungle around me
without guerilla force clinic
(…)
World wrong end of a telescope
great distance
measured aperture
big picture scheme exchanges
— Ralph Lichtensteiger, 1993
via Uglybeautycage · Audio-visual-semantic incubator · A Dialogue with John Cage · Workshop of fragments
LISTEN [00:28:05] by Ralph Lichtensteiger
Instruments: analog Tape Recorders operating at the same time, plus modified turntable · © 2008 by musique trouvé · © 2011 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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John Cage · Notes towards a re-reading of the “Roaratorio” 28.10.2009
LISTEN [64’ 52” | mp3] · see also PDF
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“Contemporary music is not the music of the future nor the music of the past, but simply music present with us… we can’t tell what it is because it is always changing. Like life it changes.” — John Cage, Silence, p. 43
“As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.” — John Cage
