Australia's participation in the ISCM

John Davis outlines some thoughts on the forthcoming ISCM festival in Sydney, and reviews the history of Australia's participation in the ISCM (Resonate Magazine)

Noise circa 1964

Blog to Comm post that mentions a 1964 record called "Sounds of the Junkyard", which Lester Bangs reviewed in Village Voice in 1981.

Musicological response to "Down Under/Kookaburra" case

http://theverlaines.co.nz/blog/view/id/411

David Ahern article from 1970

Notes on Expansion - David Ahern.

First published in Other Voices, Aug-Sept 1970.

What silence taught John Cage: The story of 4'33"

Essay from programme notes for an exhibition of Cage's work in Barcelona, by James Pritchett.

Critiques 4'33", examines the development of silence in Cage's work along with chance composition, with some very illuminating discussion of Cage's use of duration as a key to his work and the spiritual/philosophical significance of his music as well.

Cage in Life Magazine, 1943

Article in Life magazine on Cage's percussion concert given at MOMA in 1943. Text refers to "experimental composers". Lots of great photos of the performers, including Xenia Cage. These photos alongside the very quaint ads for vacuums and ham reminds us, says Alex Ross, that "Cage was in some ways the original ultra-bohemian artist, in advance of the Beats and the hippies. He, too, had his lineage—in Satie, Duchamp, the Futurists, Dada, Schoenberg, and Henry Cowell—but he really came from nowhere".

About Indeterminacy

Website containing many of Cage's short writings and essays by Cage and others about his lectures, including the compositional basis of them.