[silence] Silence Editions

[David P Miller]

Hello Leon,

Nice work! It's great to have this resource available.

Best wishes,

David

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Leon Julius wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I worked for four years on the Cage archives in the Special Collections and
> Archives dept. at Wesleyan's Olin Library--there's a ton of material there,
> including the original manuscripts and proofs of the Silence. I'd definitely
> say it's worth the trip to Connecticut, if you can afford it!
> http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/.
>
> For other Silence listers, too, you should know that this is a truly weird
> and astonishing collection, containing an crazy assortment of fan mail, news
> clippings, gallery invitations, tributes, and correspondence that Cage
> donated to Wesleyan upon his death.  And, it's now more or less researcher
> friendly.  The online Finding Aid is located here:
> http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/FAs/ca1000-72.html
>
> Enjoy!
>
> On Dec 4, 2007 11:59 AM, David P Miller <dpmiller@world.std.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings! The only lead I can provide you is a German translation by
>> Ernst Jandl, published by Suhrkamp Verlag (Frankfurt) in 1995. It includes
>> translation of the Lecture on Nothing, Lecture on Something, and 45' for a
>> Speaker -- not the whole book. I've read aloud parts of the "Vortrag uber
>> Nichts" and it compares very beautifully with the "Amerikanischen."
>>
>> The title of the translation is simply "Silence" (in English).
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> David M.
>> Jamaica Plain, Mass. USA
>>
>> On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Lo. wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, i'm in Mexico City, i'm working in a critical history of Silence:
>>> Lectures and Writings, so i kneed all the information about the book:
>>> editions, traductions, presentations, and references about this book.
>>>
>>> May be this information is in the list, i just can't find the specific
>>> subject or the way to look and serch in the archive.
>>>
>>> Tanks.
>>>
>>> (sorry if my spelling is not the best, im learning.)