Transcript Cagex - UW Canvas

John Cage
and the
‘New York School’
Noise
Italian Futurism
F. Marinetti
from A Futurist Manifesto (1908)
We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty:
the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes,
like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on
grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
Italian Futurism
F. Marinetti
from A Futurist Manifesto (1908)
We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty:
the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes,
like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on
grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the
destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for.
Italian Futurism
F. Marinetti
from A Futurist Manifesto (1908)
We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty:
the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes,
like serpents of explosive breath—a roaring car that seems to ride on
grapeshot is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the
destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for.
Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises (1913): six families of noise
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Roars, Thunderings, Explosions, Bangs, Booms
Whistling, Hissing, Puffing
Whispers, Murmurs, Mumbling, Muttering, Gurgling
Screeching, Creaking, Rustling, Buzzing, Crackling, Scraping
Noises obtained by beating on metals, woods, skins, stones, pottery, etc.
Voices of animals and people, Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails, Hoots, Howls, Death
rattles, Sobs
Luigi Russolo with his
Intonarumori
Henry Cowell
The Banshee
New Musical Resources (1930)
Sonatas and
Interludes
(1948)
Silence
John Cage — A Composer's Confessions (1947)
I wish to compose a piece of uninterrupted silence and sell it to the Muzak
Corporation. It will be three or four-and-a-half minutes long—those being the
standard lengths of "canned" music and its title will be Silent Prayer. It will open with
a single idea which I will attempt to make as seductive as the color and shape and
fragrance of a flower. The ending will approach imperceptibility.
1951 — Anechoic Chamber
"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death.
One need not fear about the future of music."
Webern
Cage met Morton Feldman in 1950 at a NY Philharmonic performance of
Webern’s Symphonie, Op. 21
Both walked out at intermission, rather than stay for Tchaikovsky
Feldman, Projection I (1950)
Dada
Hugo Ball
Dada Manifesto (1916)
An International word. Just a word, and the
word a movement. Very easy to understand.
Quite terribly simple…Dada Tzara, dada
Huelsenbeck, dada m'dada, dada m'dada dada
mhm, dada dera dada, dada Hue, dada Tza.
How does one achieve eternal bliss? By saying
dada. How does one become famous? By
saying dada. With a noble gesture and delicate
propriety. Till one goes crazy. Till one loses
consciousness.
Fountaine (1917)
Marcel Duchamp
Rrose Sèlavy
Alphonse Allais
Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man (1897)
Erwin Schulhoff
In futurum (1918)
Robert Rauschenberg
White Painting — Seven Panel (1951)
If one were sensitive enough that you could read it, that you would know how many
people were in the room, what time it was, and what the weather was like outside.
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918)
0’00”
(4′33″ No. 2)
1962
"In a situation provided with maximum amplification, perform a disciplined action."
One3 = 4′33″ (0′00″) +
1989
Ryoanji