Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Stefano Pocci <>]

Hi Simone,

I forgot to answer your question. Apologies for the delay.

Last year, a group of people including myself unsuccessfully tried to reboot the project in Monte Stella because according to the other people I had joined in the effort, that's the only place where it could be held.

Monte Stella has a peculiar feature: it is a hill in the middle of the town of Ivrea and on its top you can barely hear the sound of the city. Cage was fascinated by this location's unique property.

Luciano Martinengo was among this bunch of people trying to reboot the idea, and he was with Cage when he made the first survey of the place with Roberto Masotti and Alfredo Tradardi, last being the main political contact for the event realization.

Not sure how I could assist, because I also believe the idea still has some relevance today - perhaps even more than in 1979 :)

I tried to collect all the material related to the event as you saw in the link I sent initially (https://www.johncage.it/en/1979-montestella.html), but I don't know if there is some sort of 'copyright' around it.

Kind regards,

Stefano

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023, 16:27 <> wrote:

Since there was no reply I think it might sense to send my question and idea again.

Would be great to get some feedback.

Cheers, Simone

Am 14.09.23 um 13:37 schrieb PD Dr. Simone Heilgendorff

Von: "PD Dr. Simone Heilgendorff" <>
Datum: 14. September 2023
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Betreff: Re: [silence] Unrealized works

Hi everybody,

this park project appears to be such a great project. I am thrilled by the concept and the mediation aspects, the closeness to nature... Our association for the "ausgefallenen Klang" in a small community just Southwest of Berlin/Germany is very interested in realizing it next year. Can somebody please inform me, who holds the copyright of this concept? It seems that the Cage Trust does not even list it.
We are also interested to know if other promoters might be interested in realizing it next summer (2024), possibly in cooperation with us.

Thanks everybody! Simone Heilgendorff (www.ausklang.org)

Am 04.09.23 um 19:38 schrieb Stefano Pocci:

Hi there,

I know that the amplified park project did not happen in 1979 in Montestella d'Ivrea

https://www.johncage.it/en/1979-montestella.html

The same people that tried to pull that off in vain managed to organize the Cage retrospective in Turin, May 1984, but without that park project.

Hope this helps,

Stefano

Il giorno lun 4 set 2023 alle ore 19:12 Dionysis Boukouvalas <> ha scritto:

Do we know how many works were commissioned from Cage but yet unrealized at the time of his death? I am including works he had not even begun working on (indeed: I am especially interested on them).

I remember that the relevant number for Xenakis was roughly 15 (hearsay from Xenakis-expert pianist Ermis Theodorakis). Of course, in the case of Xenakis he just abandoned them, because he could no longer write. Allow me one more Xenakis story here, because I find it moving: When he delivered his last work, Omega (symbolically - the last letter of the Greek alphabet), it run a few minutes long, while the commission was for a 15 minute work. Xenakis said "be grateful for this (i.e. short) work, because it is my last one"...

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