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John Cage and the Music of Always.

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John Cage en die musiek van Altyd.

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John Cage and the Music of Always composed by Paul Hillier. Book. Published by Edition Samfundet. PE.ED49. ISBN 87-90056-89-2. I began these mesostics a day or so after reading that John Cage had died. I soon decided that there should be seventy-nine of them - one for each year of his life. Just as John Cage had culled readings from the work of several writers, Thoreau and Joyce most prominent among them, I wanted in my turn to construct a little tribute by exploring various writings of and about Cage himself, and a handful of other writers whom I felt he would have enjoyed experiencing in this way. Among these additional source texts are The Cloud of Unknowing. anonymous 14th-century English. Heraclitus fragments. William Billings. his introduction to his books of psalmody. , the composer from the time of the American Revolution, whose music Cage used for his Hymns and Variations. Russolo - The Art of Noise. Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. and the I Ching. For those new to the idea, a mesostic is like an acrostic, but with the subject or theme word the middle instead of down the edge. Cage established special rules for working through a text to create a sequence of words, so that the selection would be limited and guided by change rather than taste. In effect these sequences form a chain of short poems. Usually the theme word was the name of someone - very often the writer of the text itself. In this case, it is of course John Cage. Gradually I built up a stock of mesostics from which I selected those that appealed to me - sometimes patching together interesting portions from two failed mesostics to form a new one. I was thus rather freer in my approach than Cage normally was. Apart from the possibility of interesting results, I found this to be a fascinating way of approaching any text which I already esteemed, and of experiencing it afresh, finding not only new or hidden meanings, gut a kind of hand-made crystallization of the text itself. The Music of Always" was a fragment gleaned from this same process too good to pass up. Paul Hillier. 79 mesostics re and not re John Cage.

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John Cage en die musiek van altyd gekomponeer deur Paul Hillier. Book. Gepubliseer deur Edition Samfundet. PE.ED49. ISBN 87-90056-89-2. Ek het begin om hierdie mesostics 'n dag of so na die lees dat John Cage het gesterf. Ek het gou besluit dat daar 79 van hulle moet wees - een vir elke jaar van sy lewe. Net soos John Cage het lesings van die werk van verskeie skrywers uitgeskot, Thoreau en Joyce mees prominente onder hulle, ek wou in my beurt 'n bietjie huldeblyk te bou deur 'n ondersoek verskeie geskrifte van en oor Cage homself, en 'n handvol van die ander skrywers wie ek voel hy sou geniet het ervaar op hierdie manier. Onder hierdie bykomende bron tekste is die wolk van onbekende. anonieme 14de eeuse Engelse. Heraclitus fragmente. William Billings. sy inleiding tot sy boeke van psalms. , Die komponis van die tyd van die Amerikaanse Rewolusie, wie se musiek Cage gebruik vir sy Gesange en variasies. Russolo - Die kuns van Geraas. Lewis Carroll se Alice in Wonderland. en die I Ching. Vir diegene wat nuut tot die idee, 'n mesostic is soos 'n akrostiese, maar met die onderwerp of tema woord die middel plaas van af die rand. Cage gestig spesiale reƫls vir die werk deur 'n teks 'n reeks van woorde te skep, sodat die keuse beperk sal word en gelei word deur verandering eerder as smaak. In effek hierdie rye vorm 'n ketting van kort gedigte. Gewoonlik is die tema woord was die naam van iemand - baie dikwels die skrywer van die teks self. In hierdie geval, is dit natuurlik John Cage. Geleidelik het ek ook 'n voorraad van mesostics waaruit ek diegene wat 'n beroep op my gekies - soms lap saam interessante gedeeltes van twee mislukte mesostics 'n nuwe een te vorm. Ek was dus eerder vryer in my benadering as Cage gewoonlik was. Afgesien van die moontlikheid van interessante resultate, ek het gevind dat dit 'n fassinerende manier van enige teks wat ek reeds gereken nader wees, en ervaar dit opnuut, vind nie net nuwe of verborge betekenis, gut 'n soort van die hand gemaak kristallisasie van die teks self. Die musiek van altyd "was 'n fragment verkry uit dieselfde proses te goed om te slaag. Paul Hillier. 79 mesostics weer en nie weer John Cage.