Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[john david fullemann <>]

hans

I've never heard such talk from John, but from the text you quote there
are two contrahents: action and response.
Just trying to parse the inscrutable.
yours,
John David Fullemann



Den 2018-04-23 kl. 09:42, skrev hans w. koch:
> dear all,
>
> i might overlook something glaringly obvious, but anyway, i have a question:
>
> in hs text “experimental music: doctrine”, cage writes:
> Relevant action is theatrical (music [imaginary separation of hearing from 
> the other senses] does not exist), inclusive and intentionally purposeless. 
> Theatre is continually becoming that it is becoming; each human being is at 
> the best point for reception. Relevant response (getting up in the morning 
> and discovering oneself musician) (action, art) can be made with any number 
> (including none (none and number, like silence and music, are unreal]) of 
> sounds. The automatic minimum (see above) is two.
>
> now: what does that "The automatic minimum (see above) is two.” refer to?
> in the paragraphs above the one quoted, cages seems to dismiss all 
> dichotomies, notably the one between sound and silence.
> and yet here he seems getting back to that?
> or does “automatic” here reference a kind of reflex?
>
> thanks for your help and insights
>
> hans
>
>
> "Now I a fourfold vision see And a fourfold vision is given to me Tis fourfold in my 
> supreme delight And three fold in soft Beulahs night And twofold Always. May God us keep 
> From Single vision & Newtons sleep."
>
> — Blake, Letter to Thomas Butt, 22 November 1802. Quoted in Geoffrey Keynes 
> (ed.), The Letters of William Blake(1956)