Title: Sounds Like Silence - John Cage 4'33" Silence TodayPublished by: Spector Books, Leipzig
Release Date: 2012
Contributors: Dieter DANIELS, Inke ARNS
Genre: theory / elmélet
Pages: 290
ISBN13: 978-3-940064-41-7
11900 HUF - temporarily unavailable
John Cage's (1912–92) 4'33" premiered on August 29, 1952, distilling the composer's philosophical explorations of silence into four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like?
Cage's questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume – the most comprehensive on the piece to date – brings together new theoretical writings and artistic works exploring Cage's composition. A wide-ranging list of contributors, contemporary and historical – from Merce Cunningham to Rage Against the Machine – weigh in on Cage's work alongside Cage's original scores and the composer's own subsequent engagements with his most famous piece.
