Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[David P Miller <>]

Beautiful work, Larry! Can't think of a better text to start this day.

Happy birthday to all.

Best wishes,

David

On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Lawrence Johnson wrote:

> 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