[silence] Wiring John Cage: Silence as a Global Sound System

[Ralph Lichtensteiger]

Wiring John Cage: Silence as a Global Sound System
Charles Baldwin
"(...) Is there a music to media ecology? John Cage argues: "Music as  
I conceive it is ecological. You could go further and say that it IS  
ecology" (
Birds 229). The radical nature of this claim still demands to be  
understood. The challenges of Cage's long trajectory across various  
media signal his stance toward a complex exteriority, an eco- 
musicology he calls "the impossibility of language" (113). Cage is a  
thinker of complexity, that is, of the materiality of systems, of the  
"working" aggregates he names music. (...)"

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/musicsoundnoise/risky

kind regards,
ralph li
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/diary.html

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