Richard Kostelanetz: Conversing with Cage, 2nd ed (1987/2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, biography, dance, music, music theory, radio, sound recording
Conversing with Cagedraws on over 150 interviews with John Cage conducted over four decades to draw a full picture of his life and art. Filled with the witty aphorisms that have made Cage as famous as an esthetic philosopher as a composer, the book offers both an introduction to Cage’s way of thinking and a rich gathering of his many thoughts on art, life, and music. John Cage is perhaps this century’s most radical classical composer. From his famous “silent” piece (4’33”) to his proclamation that “all sound is music,” Cage stretched the aesthetic boundaries of what could be performed in the modern concert hall. But, more than that, Cage was a provocative cultural figure, who played a key role in inspiring scores of other artists-and social philosophers-in the second half of the 20th century. Through his life and work, he created revolutions in thinking about art, and its relationship to the world around us. Conversing with Cageis the ideal introduction to this world, offering inthe artist’s own words his ideas about life and art. It will appeal to all fans of this mythic figure on the American scene, as well as anyone interested in better understanding 20th century modernism.
Edition 2
Publisher Routledge, 2003
ISBN 0415937922, 9780415937924
332 pages
Marshall McLuhan, et al.: Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations (1967)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, bauhaus, dada, language, literature, mass media, media theory, music, speech, synaesthesia, telephone, television, text
Revised edition of Explorations magazine, No. 8 (Oct 1957).
With additional contributions by V. J. Papanek, J. B. Bessinger, Marshall McLuhan, Karl Polanyi, Carol C. Hollis, David Hogg, Jack Jones
Publisher Something Else Press, New York/Frankfurt/Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1967
61 pages
via aphasic-letters.com
PDF (40 MB)
Comments (2)Everything Magazine (1992-2001)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · aesthetics, art, art criticism, contemporary art, internet art, london, media culture, music, net art, new media, philosophy, technology, theory
The magazine reported on London’s independent art scene, projects, politics and philosophy throughout the 1990s. The web archive includes essays, interviews, reviews, web projects, and two eBC net casts.
Editorial collective (e/E): Luci Eyers, Steve Rushton aka Martina Kapopkin, John Timberlake
Published in London
via Steve Rushton
Interview with editors (Real Audio, 1999)
HTML (Issue -1)
HTML (partial archive, use menu at the bottom)
Net casts (1998)