[silence] John Cage Web-Site: An Idea

[Eric Phelps]

Joseph,

Thanks for your reply.  That is GREAT news... I can't wait to see it.  (But I will, patiently, listening to the rain).

Eric

--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com> wrote:
From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com>
Subject: Re: [silence] John Cage Web-Site: An Idea
To: "Silence" <silence@list.mail.virginia.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 4:47 PM

I just got a quick email from the John Cage Trust informally
describing just such a site, which they've been developing with great
care and wonderful resources for quite a while, and which will launch
soon. From what they've told me, it's going to be just amazing. Stay
tuned.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Eric Phelps <ericlphelps@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> 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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