Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Lawrence Johnson <>]

Hello Everyone,

Happy hundredth birthday, John Cage. Congratulations to all who knew and/or learned from this wonderful man.

 

To commemorate this day, I wrote some short texts. I hope it's okay to share one with you-- a verbal “passacaglia”-- and provide a link to the others. 

=Lawrence Johnson

 

Composer, artist, gnostic, explorer’s

centennial anniversary. Gaudeamus. Everything

changes. Avant garde-ist enters

chamber (anechoic), gets ears

cleaned. Afterwards generally employs

cointosses and graphs events

chronologically—audible gleanings egolessly

composed, anarchistically generated. Everything

changes. Aural gnosis experienced.

Chance actions generating ephemeral

compositions and gaining emptiness,

challenging all givens. Everything

changes. A great experimenter

come and gone. Eternity…

 

Two more passacaglias and a coda at http://lnaaguge.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/three-passacaglias-and-coda-for-john.html