Also been reading a lot more Cage. Some interesting quotes:
“Hearing sounds which are just sounds immediately sets the theorizing mind to theorizing, and the emotions of human beings are continually aroused by encounters with nature. Does not a mountain unintentionally evoke in us a sense of wonder? Otters along a stream a sense of mirth? Night in the woods a sense of fear? ...
“These responses to nature are mine and will not necessarily correspond with another’s. Emotion takes place in the person who has it. And sounds, when allowed to be themselves, do not require that those who hear them do so unfeelingly. …
“New music: new listening. Not an attempt to understand something that is being said, for, if something were being said, the sounds would be given the shapes of words. Just an attention to the activity of sounds.”
John Cage, from Experimental Music (Silence)
“Masterpieces and geniuses go together and when by running from one to the other we make life safer than it actually is we’re apt never to know the dangers of contemporary music…” (or even be able to drink a glass of water – SIC)
John Cage, from Composition As Process: III. Communication (Silence)
“The way to test a modern painting is this: If it is not destroyed by the action of shadows it is genuine oil painting. A cough or a baby crying will not ruin a good piece of modern music.”
John Cage, two excerpts from 45’ for a Speaker (Silence)
Below: Top - Rode Mic with shield removed, wedged in a bottle for recording
Bottom - Shoved up t'hoover, nice twang noise when the hose is flicked
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