Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[AHF <>]

The boxes contained mostly things that came in the mail advertising things to do with either music, or mushrooms, or the humanities. They were boxed as such, then sent to three different places (San Diego? Wesleyan? Northwestern?). Again, other people here will know which place took which category, and will have visited the archives and be able to tell you what is in them far better than my memory can provide

Rather than trivia, this was the capturing of ephemerata.  Things mailed (mostly — some may have arrived by hand or been given to him personally somewhere else), at a point in time, as filtered through other peoples' ideas of what John Cage would be interested in.

AC

On Sep 18, 2023, at 10:28 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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To: Dionysis Boukouvalas <>
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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