[silence] Re: silence Digest, Vol 36, Issue 7

[ania jurek]

In Cage opinion Artist:
1. experiences the aesthetic satisfaction with the reality as it is, through submerging in the positive emptiness, being as being (Heidegger, Buddhism zen),
2. gives up his privileged status as a creator (anti-Wagner, anti-Schonberg),
3. avoids political structures and market mechanisms (anarchism),
4. does not take his art in terms of work but in terms of excess, superfluousness and luxuriance (Bataille),
Provided that his/her art:
5. is not expression of the artist’s personality (anonymous, impersonal art),
6. is not communication (anti-Adorno, anti-modernism),
7. calms down and relaxes (G. Sarabhai),
8. imitates nature in her manner of operations (Coomaraswamy),
9. is a kind of continuum (composition as a process) with no beginning, middle or end, like the sound continuum or weather (‘whether weather’)
10. is something absolutely new and unique each time it is performed (even if it is the same composition),
11. happens while being performed (indetermination),
12. does not reflect ideas but produces them (e.i. Cage’s mesostics),
13. does not assume a specific shape but remains a ‘nonthing’, not for sale (anti-consumerism),
14. reveals its content while getting in touch with the audience in an pre-verbal, pre-rational way (like Heidegger’s poetry of being),
15. is ‘knocking one’s head against a wall’, affirmation of life (in Nietzsche’s sense) but not the arts with its all variety and complexity (of sounds).
 
best regards,
jurek


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>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:53:40 +0300
>From: Arturas Bumsteinas <abumstein@delfi.lt>
>To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu
>Subject: [silence] list of themes
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>hello list,
>
>today i have to write an essay about Cage. it should be quite 
>resumptive text. i wanted to ask if you could send me some themes
>i should really mention there (or anything what you think could look 
>well in the bachelors essay on cage...).
>
>
>best regards,
>arturas
>
>
>--> www.bumstein.com/art
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>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:03:10 +0200
>From: Samuel the Frolicsome Composer from Hell <sqv@xs4all.nl>
>To: Arturas Bumsteinas <abumstein@delfi.lt>
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>Subject: Re: [silence] list of themes
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>Arturas Bumsteinas wrote:
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>> hello list,
>> 
>> today i have to write an essay about Cage. it should be quite 
>> resumptive text. i wanted to ask if you could send me some themes
>> i should really mention there (or anything what you think could look 
>> well in the bachelors essay on cage...).
>> 
>> 
>> best regards,
>> arturas
>
>
>I would say,
>
>MethodStructureIntentionDisciplineNotationIndeterminacy
>InterpenetrationImitationDevotionCircumstancesVariableStructure
>NonunderstandingContingencyInconsistencyPerformance
>
>For a number of those, see Cage\'s text "Composition in 
>Retrospect".
>
>
>-- 
>http://composers21.com/compdocs/vriezens.htm
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~sqv/vriezen_mp3.html
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>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:22:31 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>From: bebopj@ix.netcom.com
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>Subject: Re: [silence] list of themes
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>1. Sound vs. silence
>2. Zen Buddhism
>3. Chance operations as a means of composing
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arturas Bumsteinas <abumstein@delfi.lt>
>Sent: May 17, 2005 5:53 AM
>To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu
>Subject: [silence] list of themes
>
>hello list,
>
>today i have to write an essay about Cage. it should be quite 
>resumptive text. i wanted to ask if you could send me some themes
>i should really mention there (or anything what you think could look 
>well in the bachelors essay on cage...).
>
>
>best regards,
>arturas
>
>
>--> www.bumstein.com/art
><--------------------===================================-------------------->
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>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:33:15 +0300
>From: Arturas Bumsteinas <abumstein@delfi.lt>
>To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: [silence] list of themes
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>yes, thanks. all helps! i\'m working at the moment and checking my 
>email once an hour.
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>
>>1. Sound vs. silence
>>2. Zen Buddhism
>>3. Chance operations as a means of composing
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Arturas Bumsteinas <abumstein@delfi.lt>
>>Sent: May 17, 2005 5:53 AM
>>To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu
>>Subject: [silence] list of themes
>>
>>hello list,
>>
>>today i have to write an essay about Cage. it should be quite 
>>resumptive text. i wanted to ask if you could send me some themes
>>i should really mention there (or anything what you think could 
>look 
>>well in the bachelors essay on cage...).
>>
>>
>>best regards,
>>arturas
>>
>>
>>--> www.bumstein.com/art
>
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