Imaginary landscape No. 5 (?)

One more question...
In Imaginary landscape No. 5 there are times when using the same recording 
silence is inserted. But what happens to the recording then?
To make it clear let's see an example.
A recording consists of four cords A,B,C and D major each lasting one 
second. If a passage in Im.L.5 requires 2 seconds of the recording, one 
second of silence and one more second of the recording, which of the 
following should apply?
1) A and B major chords - 1 second silence - C major chord
2) A and B major chords - 1 second silence (mute) - D major chord
I hope you get the point.
So?

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Cage performance & discussion at NYPL

Two upcoming events sponsored by the New York Public Library for the
Performing Arts will be of interest to Silence subscribers.  Both events are
free to the public.

Sunday, April 27, at 4:33 PM

PERCUSSIONISTS OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA
Works by John Cage
LaGuardia High School Auditorium, Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street

Saturday, May 3, at 3 PM
REDEFINING COLLABORATION:  THE PARTNERSHIP OF MERCE CUNNINGHAM AND JOHN CAGE
Lecture by Roger Copeland
at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium

Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Librarian
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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red fish blue fish review

http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=20459

Andante.com has a review of a recent performance of, among other items,
Cage's "Amores" and "Inlets":

"...It is Nature herself, rather than the composer or the performers, who
speaks in Cage's Inlets (1977). Demonstrating Cagean Dadaism as clearly as
any of his works, Inlets perfectly captures the Zen ideal of formlessness in
the serendipity of three performers swirling water in amplified conch. The
result is a gorgeously rich antiphony of gurgling. After waiting patiently
for several minutes, a fourth conch player enters midway, impertinently
blowing his shell like a horn; this interruption announces the entry of a
recording of pine cones burning. As if undisturbed by this interlude, the
three conch-gurglers return unceremoniously to their naive study of natural
sound. One final bubbling gesture performed solo provides the closing button
for the piece, emphasizing the irony of non-relationships which is this
work's binding principle. The key for the performers to make this
found-sound world compelling is a child-like detachment; red fish blue fish
having achieved this aptly, there is little else to critique in the
ensemble's performance - excepting perhaps Steven Schick's excellent choice
of resonant conch shells..."

Cartrdige music

Re: Cartdirge music

http://www.garage-a-records.com/jpgs/10.jpg

Cartridges D10, D13 and D19 on this page look like the correct type --
with a set-screw so you can put something else in, in place of a needle.

These are ceramic cartridges - you can always use cheap piezo disc
transducers instead though they don't sound as good. You can solder
alligator clips on the piezo disks though, which makes attaching them to
objects very easy.
Richard Lerman has a nice guide to piezo disc microphones here:
www.floraberlin.de/soundbag/sbdownloads/piezos.pdf

There is a picture here of an old cartridge which David Tudor had set up
on a heavy aluminum bar (with felt on the bottom), with an alligator clip
permanently inserted in the needle hole, also for ease of performance...
 http://mrogalsky.net/otherthings/dtelectronics/
(click on the fourth picture down the right side)

best
mattr

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Dionisis Boukouvalas wrote:

> Hi,
> I was searching the archives about Cartridge music but found little about how to play the piece.
> It's not about interpreting the score.
> It's about what is a "phonograph cartridge".
> Recently I bought a record player and I was wondering: Is this (a modern record player) suitable for performance?
> Or phonograph cartridges are an older kind of stuff?
> I even tried it at home, taking out the needle and trying to insert a pencil, but... where?
> I don't think it's the right kind of cartridge anyway.
> Does anyone know where I can find more on this? (eg. a book on Cage, a technical book, etc)
> I really like the piece and I'd love to perform it (even if I have to search for the suitable cartridge).
> Thank you.
>

Re: Cartrdige music

>Recently I bought a record player and I was wondering: Is this (a modern 
>record player) suitable for performance?
>Or phonograph cartridges are an older kind of stuff?
>I even tried it at home, taking out the needle and trying to insert a 
>pencil, but... where?
>I don't think it's the right kind of cartridge anyway.

Once again (as in the case of the vacuum-tube AM radios needed for Radio 
Music and Imag. Landscape), it seems we need the Period Instrument ensembles 
to tackle Cage.

peace,

Robert

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25-Year Retrospective Concert recording

I own a copy of the 3-LP "25 Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of
John Cage" that took place in Town Hall in 1958 and comes with an
extensive booklet that contains notes and one page from all the scores
that were performed. Does anyone out there have any idea how many copies
of this set exist and what its value might be? A friend was recently
looking over my record collection & suggested I check this out. I don't
want to sell it, but would like to know if it's at all rare or valuable.
Any help in this matter would be most welcome. (I'm aware, btw, the the
recording was recently re-issued on CD.)

Dawn Culbertson

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Re: 25-Year Retrospective Concert recording

>I own a copy of the 3-LP "25 Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of
>John Cage" that took place in Town Hall in 1958 and comes with an
>extensive booklet that contains notes and one page from all the scores
>that were performed. Does anyone out there have any idea how many copies
>of this set exist and what its value might be? A friend was recently
>looking over my record collection & suggested I check this out. I don't
>want to sell it, but would like to know if it's at all rare or valuable.
>Any help in this matter would be most welcome. (I'm aware, btw, the the
>recording was recently re-issued on CD.)
>
>Dawn Culbertson

You probably don't have to worry about changing your insurance 
policy. these regularly go for somewhere between US$100-200 on ebay.
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