[silence] John Cage Web-Site: An Idea

[Eric Phelps]

Hello All:
 
In looking at the JC web-site links out there (some of which are no longer functioning), I wonder:
 
Shouldn't an artist as important as Cage have a wonderful interactive web-site?  Though there are a couple with comprehensive discographies, etc. this doesn't seem to be in the spirit of a man whose work included early computer technology (in 1970s & 1980s), wonderful lectures, amazing pieces, videos, etc.  There have also been SO Many wonderful pieces of music written with similar techniques that it seems a shame that they are all over the place.  I seem to recall some wonderful technology things form the 1995 Cage conference at Mills College - where did all of this go?
 
Could John Cage Trust (or some other entity) support the development of a site with:

Interactive chance operations (randomizer) that plays music
Videos of various hard-to-find pieces (or embed the ones on youtube)
A photo gallery
Links to various associated artists
Etc.
I think that the Merce Cunningham site is a more up-to-date example of what might be.
 
Since I'm not a tech guy, I don't know how this is done or what it involves (though from management persepctive I know it's easier said than done). 
 
IF not supported by one group, could we develop a collective (as people who admire & use his work) for a cage "super-site."
 
Thoughts?  Perhaps this is already in place somewhere in the world, but I don't know about it?  Perhaps it is in process?
 
Eric


      
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