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Episode #123 - John Cage's Silent Piece 4'33", with Kyle Gann

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Kyle Gann, author of No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33", discusses this seminal work.

This week's guest:

  • Kyle Gann
  • No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33"

    • Show notes:

    • Episode #80, John Cage (with Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust)
    • Episode #69 – Brian Brandt of Mode Records on John Cage, Morton Feldman, and the Music Business
    • Episode #102 - Silence
    • John Cage and the Anechoic Chamber
    • Muzak (Wikipedia)
    • Searching for Silence John Cage's Art of Noise, by Alex Ross (New Yorker)
    • David Tudor
    • John Cage: Silence: Lectures and Writings
    • John Cage performing Water Walk on I've Got a Secret, 1960
    • John Cale on I've Got a Secret, 1963
    • Joseph Campbell (Wikipedia)
    • New Music America festival, 1982
    • Harold Budd - Children on the Hill (transcr. Kyle Gann)
    • From Brussels With Love

      • Our next tracks:

      • Brad Mehldau: After Bach
      • Frank Zappa: Chunga's Revenge

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