"All Things Cage" is a weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world. If youd like to propose a guest or a topic for a future program, write directly to Laura at lkuhn@johncage.org.
The parallels between Balinese gamelan and certain works by John Cage " especially the ones of the 'prepared piano' period " seem obvious to many, including John Noise Manis, who, together with Andrew McGraw, embarked on producing the recording well listen to this evening, Gamelan Cage (Sanggar Ceraken of Bali), with a purposely put together gamelan orchestra led by I Mad Subandi. These recordings were made on July 29-30, 2012, at the Purnati Center for the Arts, performed by Bali Gamelan Ceraken - I Mad Subandi, director, and were released in 2013 on the artist-led, UK-based Sargasso label, scd 28075, with a booklet of liner notes that describe the preparatory and recording processes. The works by John Cage included on this beautiful recording are Bacchanale (1940), Primitive (1942), Tossed as it is Untroubled (1943), Prelude for Meditation (1944), The Unavailable Memory of (1944), Mysterious Adventure (1945), Daughters of the Lonesome Isle (1945), Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947), and Sonata V, from Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946-48).
The late Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman once described his "Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage" (Knopf, 2012) as the hardest book hed ever written. This was because, as he put it, pick up any rock and theres John Cage! Indeed, Cage was not only a world-renowned composer, numbering among his compositions the still notoriously tacet 433, but a ground-breaking poet, a philosopher, a chess master who studied with Marcel Duchamp, a macrobiotic chef, a devotee of Zen Buddhism, a prolific visual artist, and an avid and pioneering mycologist. He was also life partner to the celebrated American choreographer, Merce Cunningham, for nearly half a century, and thus well known in the world of modern dance. Episode 077. EVERGREEN.
Gamelan Cage (Sanggar Ceraken of Bali, 2013)
Weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world.
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July 14, 2022
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