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“26.’1.1499” by John Cage, performed by Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik in 1971
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Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman performing John Cage's "26'1.1499" for a String Player" 1965
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for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, so that means to combat John Cage's 4'33, I propose a piece called 3'44, wherein every single note within range possible is played for three minutes and forty-four seconds
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John Cage preparing a piano in 1947
photograph by Irving Penn
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John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg, New York City, May 2, 1960.
photo: Richard Avedon. © The Richard Avedon Foundation
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10 rules for students and teachers, by John Cage
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John Cage foraging for mushrooms [Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC), Asheville, NC. © John Cage Trust]
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John Cage, from 45’ for Speaker
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John Cage, September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992.
1974 photo by Peter Hujar.
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Martin Scorsese, to the New York Times, after they published an article shortly after Federico Fellini passed away calling his movies- and other 'foreign' movies of the same ilk- 'hard work'
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John Cage, Photographs of Mushrooms, 1962-63
Scanned (imperfectly) from my copy of John Cage: A Mycological Foray: Variations on Mushrooms Variations on Mushrooms
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Happy As Slow As Possible Chord Change Day to all who celebrate!
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I think of you all the time and therefor have little to say that would not embarrass you, for instance my first feeling about the rain was that it was like you.
John Cage, from a letter to Merce Cunningham in 'The Selected Letters of John Cage'
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Cage, Ono, and Tudor performing Music Walk (October 9, 1962. Tokyo, Bunka, Kaikan). Yasuhiro Yoshioko. David Tudor Papers.
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