Experimentation : John Cage in music, art, and architecture

Author

• Joseph, Branden W.

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury, 2016

Language

English

ISBN

9781501306396

Series

Subject(s)

• MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE
• AVANT-GARDE (AESTHETICS)
• AVANT-GARDE (AESTHETICS)--UNITED STATES-HISTORY--20TH CENTURY
• AVANT-GARDE (MUSIC)--HISTORY--20TH CENTURY
• CAGE, JOHN--CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION
• CAGE, JOHN--INFLUENCE
• CAGE, JOHN, 1912-1992-BIOGRAPHY

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 198-2014. Index: p. 205-217

Abstract

Experimentations provides a detailed historical and theoretical analysis of the first three decades of experimental composer John Cage's aesthetic production (ca. 1940-1972). Paying particular attention to Cage's inter- and cross-disciplinary engagements with the visual arts and architecture during this period, the book sheds new light on some of Cage's most controversial and influential innovations, such as the use of noise, chance techniques, indeterminacy, electronic technologies, and computerization, as well as upon lesser known but important ideas and strategies such as transparency, multiplicity, virtuality, and actualization. Ultimately, it traces the development of Cage's avant-garde aesthetic and political project as it transformed from the emulation of historical avant-garde precedents such as futurism and the Bauhaus, to the development of important precedents for the post-World War II movements of happenings and Fluxus, to its ultimate abandonment in the aftermath of problems encountered in the vast, multimedia composition HPSCHD (1967-69).

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xiv, 217 p.

Dimension

23 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

I. Introduction
II. A Therapeutic Value for City Dwellers
III. Hitchhiker in an Omnidirectional Transport
IV. The Architecture of Silence
V. Chance/Indeterminacy/Multiplicity
VI. Ghost or Monster?
Bibliography
Index

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