Silence: Lectures and Writings

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Silence: Lectures and Writings is a seminal collection of essays, lectures, and experimental texts by composer John Cage that explores his radical ideas on sound, chance, and the nature of music and art.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
essay collection
associatedWith New York School (music) NERFINISHED
avant-garde
author John Cage NERFINISHED
centralIdea blurring boundary between music and noise
redefinition of music as organized sound
role of silence in music
use of chance operations in composition
containsForm essays
experimental texts
lectures
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describedAs seminal work of 20th-century music aesthetics
genre aesthetics
experimental literature
music theory
hasISBN 9780819560284
hasPart Composition as Process NERFINISHED
Experimental Music
History of Experimental Music in the United States NERFINISHED
Indeterminacy NERFINISHED
Lecture on Nothing NERFINISHED
Lecture on Something
influenced conceptual art
contemporary classical music
performance art
sound art
intendedAudience artists
musicians
scholars of music and art
language English
mediaType print
notableFor articulating John Cage's aesthetic ideas
influence on experimental music
pageCount 276
publicationYear 1961
publisher Wesleyan University Press NERFINISHED
subject avant-garde art
chance operations
composition
experimental music
music
performance
philosophy of art
silence NERFINISHED
sound
timePeriodCovered mid-20th century

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