Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

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Hi Rod and Silencers

A belated thanks ROD for the plug of Mode's Bandcamp page. It has a dedicated JOHN CAGE page under the "Artist" tab, along with other Composer Edition Series composers.

And a thanks to the Silence audience for their support of Mode Records over the years. Purchases of physical product such as CDs as well as Downloads are the only way that Mode will be able to produce new releases and continue the Cage Edition. We cannot continue this kind of work on streaming income.

Mode will have a new Cage Edition release in the coming months.

Brian Brandt
www.moderecords.com

On 3/21/20 12:45 PM, Rod Stasick wrote:

Bandcamp downloads come in a nice variety of forms - 

from compressed to uncompressed: 

two different kinds of mp3s, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis,

ALAC, WAV, and AIFF. With them all being the same price, 

this is a good thing, so if you’re getting to the point

where physical media just takes up too much room,

then this is a good alternative. I still buy LPs from them tho.

I was excited to see Mode show up there, 

because Bandcamp has become the best alternative

with a growing base of support. Hopefully, when all

of the available titles are shown, there’ll be a bulk 

discount price attached soon.

The community and up-to-date knowledge 

derived from Bandcamp is quite astounding.

It reminds me, in some ways, of the personal-influence 

of free-form radio from the late 60s/early 70s.

I’m seeing that effect on a good number of 

younger people over the past decade.

My collection from them is approaching 1000

and many end up in mixes or in broadcasts -

often because of their newness and inventiveness.

Plus, I can load up all of the almost 1000, hit random,

and let them play through all of the speakers in the house.

Rod

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