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John Cage: 4'33''- Sounds Like Silence - by Dieter Daniels & Inke Arns (Paperback)
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- The most comprehensive publication to date on John Cage's iconic meditation on the sound of silenceJohn Cage's (1912-92) 4'33" premiered on August 29, 1952, distilling the composer's philosophical explorations of silence into four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence.
- Author(s): Dieter Daniels & Inke Arns
- 288 Pages
- Art, Individual Artists
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About the Book
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Sounds like silence: John Cage, 4'33'': silence today: 1912, 1952, 2012, Aug. 25, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund, Germany.Book Synopsis
The most comprehensive publication to date on John Cage's iconic meditation on the sound of silence
John Cage's (1912-92) 4'33" premiered on August 29, 1952, distilling the composer's philosophical explorations of silence into four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like?
Cage's questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume--the most comprehensive on the piece to date--brings together new theoretical writings and artistic works exploring Cage's composition. A wide-ranging list of contributors, contemporary and historical--from Merce Cunningham to Rage Against the Machine--weigh in on Cage's work alongside Cage's original scores and the composer's own subsequent engagements with his most famous piece.