Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Eric Theise <>]

Who am I, but I have never heard such a story in conjunction with Cage. It would have stuck with me.

The story fits Warhol, who kept storage spaces in New Jersey and did exactly as you describe. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has a glassed-off room where all the boxes are on display, and each month the contents of a different box are turned out into a vitrine for public viewing.

https://www.warhol.org/research/archives-study-center/

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 7:28 AM Dionysis Boukouvalas <> wrote:

Depends. Did the boxes contain trivia, all just "useful" stuff?

Did you group the objects per type per box, somehow, and send each box/group/type to a specific University?

Because this is what I remember.

But memory is a very tricky thing.

Dionysis

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Subject: Re: [silence] John Cage and storage

 

You might be thinking of the boxes I used to pack and ship to various universities over the years. Others on this list will be able to fill in the details better than I.

I never knew of any rented storage spaces, and I almost certainly would have.

Andrew Culver

On Sep 18, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Dionysis Boukouvalas <> wrote:

I don't know where I came across this, years ago.

I remember reading that, from one point on, Cage did not throw anything away. Instead he stored them in specially rented spaces.

Does that ring a bell?

Do I remember correctly? Or did I misunderstood what I have read, or even make it up?..

This idea has fascinated me ever since. I discover time and again the value of things, even trivial ones, that I miss years later, for one reason or another (if not for themselves, for their relation to other things, events etc).

Dionysis