[silence] John Cage's Train

[John Cage]

“Any and all sounds are music: the sounds that surround us, whether  
we are in a concert hall or not...”
We can begin from this quote by John Cage to unearth the traces of  
one of the most emblematic happenings of our time. In June 1978  
Cage’s Train marked a watershed in musical culture. It drew a line  
which parted those who think of music as an artistic expression based  
on a tonal system (or beyond that, on any system at all) from those  
who believe music to be merely one element of a wider universe of  
sounds, where all we can do is refine the art of listening. Cage’s  
Train was articulated into “3 excursions in a prepared train”.
The happening Alla ricerca del silenzio perduto • Cage's Train has  
lingered in the memory of all the people who took part in it, and the  
echoes left behind by the American composer's prepared train have  
spread through time. This rare document contains critical  
contributions on the event in both Italian and English from Daniel  
Charles, Tito Gotti, Giampiero Cane and Carlo Infante, a rich  
photografic selection of the whole event from Lelli & Masotti,  
Corinto Marianelli, Giovanni Giovannetti, Emilio Simion, 3 audio CDs  
featuring the elaboration of the train’s 3 excursions from Walter  
Marchetti and Patrizio Fariselli, and 1 DVD with the only video and  
Super8 documentation of the event. They are all previously  
unpublished materials, collected here for the first time.
If someone is interested in this book please refer to  
info@iltrenodijohncage.it

Oderso Rubini
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