Episode #123 - John Cage's Silent Piece 4'33", with Kyle Gann




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Summary: <p>Kyle Gann, author of No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33", discusses this seminal work.</p> <p><strong>This week's guest:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.kylegann.com" rel="nofollow">Kyle Gann</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2Duy5Wb" rel="nofollow">No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33"</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Show notes</strong>:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.thenexttrack.com/83" rel="nofollow">Episode #80, John Cage (with Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.thenexttrack.com/72" rel="nofollow">Episode #69 – Brian Brandt of Mode Records on John Cage, Morton Feldman, and the Music Business</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.thenexttrack.com/105" rel="nofollow">Episode #102 - Silence</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.kirkville.com/john-cage-and-the-anechoic-chamber/" rel="nofollow">John Cage and the Anechoic Chamber</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak" rel="nofollow">Muzak (Wikipedia)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/searching-for-silence" rel="nofollow">Searching for Silence John Cage's Art of Noise, by Alex Ross (New Yorker)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tudor" rel="nofollow">David Tudor</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2DfRbz3" rel="nofollow">John Cage: Silence: Lectures and Writings</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSulycqZH-U" rel="nofollow">John Cage performing Water Walk on I've Got a Secret, 1960</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mqO-xsRyTM" rel="nofollow">John Cale on I've Got a Secret, 1963</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell" rel="nofollow">Joseph Campbell (Wikipedia)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Music_America" rel="nofollow">New Music America festival, 1982</a></li> <li><a href="https://soundcloud.com/sarah-cahill8/harold-budd-children-on-the-hill-transcr-kyle-gann" rel="nofollow">Harold Budd - Children on the Hill (transcr. Kyle Gann)</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2QMvPfc" rel="nofollow">From Brussels With Love</a></li> </ul> <p><img src="https://www.kirkville.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/tdk-ec6.jpg" width="300"></p> <p><strong>Our next tracks</strong>:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://amzn.to/2ppr5zM" rel="nofollow">Brad Mehldau: After Bach</a> </li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2ppjMIo" rel="nofollow">Frank Zappa: Chunga's Revenge</a></li> </ul> <div class="apple-music-embed"> </div> <div class="apple-music-embed"> </div> <p>If you like the show, please <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-next-track/id1116242606" rel="nofollow">subscribe in iTunes</a> or your favorite podcast app, and please rate the podcast.</p>