![]() I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves.Quote of John Cage from Forerunners of Modern Music (1949), first published in the New York journal A Tiger's Eye, later collected in Silence.A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.And so we make our lives by what we love. I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson.I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, 4/SILENCE In: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937) in: 'Silence: lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn.NEW METHODS WILL BE DISCOVERED, BEARING A DEFINITE RELATION TO SCHOENBERG'S TWELVE-TONE SYSTEM No rhythm will be beyond the composer's reach. The 'frame' or fraction of a second, following established film technique, will probably be the basic unit in the measurement of time. The composer (organizer of sound) will be faced not only with the entire field of sound but also with the entire field of time.Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, CREDO/3 ![]()
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