Cage Uncaged
The Song Company and Claire Edwardes
Venue
The Art Gallery of WA
Perth Cultural Centre, Perth
Date
8pm, Thurs 26th April
Tickets
$30/$25
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John Cage
(Photo: Susan Schwartzenberg, © Exploratorium)
A paradox or a conundrum? Perhaps an elusive response to the music, words and ideas of John Cage. As elusive as Cage was and is, always on the move, busy and not busy at all, always on the outlook but rather watching sideways, always listening and hearing new things.
John Cage (1912–1992) – composer, Zen Buddhist, writer, mycologist and one of the most influential figures of 20th Century Art.
A program of rarely-heard works by Cage juxtaposed by responses from other composers to his legacy, all interspersed with texts from Silence, Empty Words, and A Year from Monday.
‘I have nothing to say/and I am saying it /and that is poetry/as I needed it.’ John Cage
‘This play is an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out the way and lets it act of its own accord.’ John Cage
Cage works include:
Litany for the Whale
Solos for voice
Living Room Music
ear for EAR (Antiphonies)
4’33” (no.2)
Three2
Forever Sunsmell
Responses to Cage include:
Frederik Rzewski – To the Earth
Michael Smetanin – Due Pezzi Per Niente
Stephen Adams (Premiere) – A Short Service
Mayke Nas – ‘Anyone can do it’
Colin Bright (Premiere) – The Last Whale
