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John Cage (1912-1992)



Full Albums


Norton Lectures (1988-89)

A Dip in the Lake



Various Tracks



1. Mushroom Haiku, excerpt from Silence (1972/69)

2. excerpt from Silence (1969)

3. Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake, (1978)

4. Song, Derived from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1976)

5. Mureau (1975), 4:06

6. John Cage Meets Sun Ra, Side A

7. John Cage Meets Sun Ra, Side B

8. Fontana Mix - Feed, Nov. 6, 1967

9. 62 Mesostics Re - Merce Cunningham (Jack Briece, vocalist), 1971

10. 26'1.1499" For a String Player by John Cage. Played by Charlotte Moorman. Short version from unique lacquer disc.




NOTES

1. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1972)

2. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets: Disconnected (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1974)

3. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets: Nova Convention (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1978)

4. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets: Totally Corrupt (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1976)

5. From the LP Dial-A-Poem Poets: Biting off the Tongue of a Corpse (Giorno Poetry Systems, 1975)

6-7. From the album: John Cage Meets Sun Ra, Meltdown MPA-1 (1987). Alternates performances by Sun Ra-Yamaha DX-7; and John Cage-voc. Sideshows by the Sea, Coney Island, NY, 6/8/86. [Album jacket plus Andrejko]

Sideshows by the Sea was the last surviving freak show along the Coney Island boardwalk. Ra and Cage's appearance was duly announced by the barker outside. Other portions of this concert, which included Pharaoh Abdullah processing and dancing, and Ra and Cage performing together, may have been recorded but haven't been issued.

8. Fontana Mix - Feed, Nov. 6, 1967, realized by Max Neuhaus (9 mins. 57 secs) from Aspen No. 5+6. View score.

9. From 10 + 2 = 12 American Text-Sound Pieces

10. From Charlotte Moorman on UbuWeb





RELATED RESOURCES:

John Cage in UbuWeb Film
John Cage in UbuWeb Historical
"The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage's "What You Say"" Marjorie Perloff
"Postmodernism and the Music of John Cage" Nancy Perloff
John Cage in the UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing




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