Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Rod Stasick <>]

https://lithub.com/self-storage-reading-john-cage-in-reykjavik/

Hello folks,

I’m not really one for this kind of writing,
but it does have some interesting observations about Cage within. 
Basically, the author is recounting her trip to Iceland and her reading of 
Cage’s republished "Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make 
Matters Worse)” during her trip.

“...“We need an utterly wireless technology,” he wrote almost 30 years before 
the Internet. “Add video screen to telephone. Give each subscriber a thousand 
sheets of recordable erasable material so anytime, anywhere, anyone would 
have access to a thousand sheets of something (drawings, books, music, 
whatever).” Before the advent of portable hard drives he was predicting our 
memory banks, Facetime and Skype, the thousands of digital artifacts clogging 
our iClouds and iPhones. Memories, deconstructed into data, that we had 
access to with the swipe of an index finger on a black screen…”

Hope everyone is having a good holiday season.
It’s been, let’s say, a memorable 2019 - both on a personal basis and 
internationally.

R


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