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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"John Cage"”.
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The Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics in John Cage and Charles Olson
… the longform poetics of Charles Olson and of John Cage, and with the role indeterminacy plays in their constitution and reception. The work of these authors poses unusual and particular challenges to readers, and it is towards readers and reading that this thesis is primarily oriented. Each …
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"Marvelous Accidents": The Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra of John Cage
John Cages Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1950-51) holds a unique position within the composers oeuvre as the first work based in part on chance-derived compositional procedures. Cage entered into such practice gradually, incrementally abandoning subjective taste and personal …
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From soprano to barking dog : John Cage, the avant garde, and the counterculture, 1940-1975
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The Limits of Indeterminacy: The Performance and Analysis of Selected Indeterminate Compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown
… in several indeterminate compositions by John Cage and Earle Brown. While both Cage and Brown emphasized the multiplicity of possible outcomes in these works, the distinct configurations of fixed and unfixed elements in each ensure particular kinds of musical results to the exclusion of …
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Concepts of time in the works of John Cage, George Crumb, and Toru Takemitsu and implications for performance
… the music of three twentiethcentury composers, John Cage (1912-1922), George Crumb (born 1929), and Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996). This thesis also examines the role that the performer plays in conveying temporal aspects of body of work. These three composers were interested in nonlinear …
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Doctoral thesis recital (percussion)
… -- Kembang suling / Gareth Farr -- Credo in us / John Cage.
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RevealingReveilingReveling
… of questions concerning communication posed by John Cage, coupled with an extension of those questions posed by myself, are set to recorded sounds-in-the-world. The intention is to create a greater awareness of that which there is to listen in our world. The first part of this essay discusses …
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The Snare Drum as a Solo Concert Instrument: An In-Depth Study of Works by Milton Babbitt, John Cage, Dan Senn, and Stuart Saunders Smith, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Keiko Abe, Daniel Levitan, Askell Masson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Others
… "Composed Improvisation for Snare Drum" by John Cage, "Peeping Tom" by Dan Senn, and "The Noble Snare" by Stuart Saunders Smith). In the absence of many traditional musical devices (i.e. melody and harmony), alternative means of expression are used by the composer. Each piece is discussed …
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Between consonance and dissonance
… influenced largely by Morton Feldman and John Cage - developed as a result of my interest in just intonation and microtonality and through the influences of James Tenney, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, and painters Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter. The first section provides background …
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Singing Nature, Dancing Buddha: Zen, Language, and the Groundlessness of Silence
… forefront of the investigation. An analysis of John Cage's 4'33" provides this thesis with justification of the groundlessness of silence, and the groundlessness of subjectivity. Listening allows for the abyssal subject to emerges, which in tum allows for reality to present itself outside of the …
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The Music of Language
… natural languages in the works of Ernst Toch, John Cage, Steve Reich, Vinko Globokar and Georges Aperghis, as well as constructed languages in the music of Kurt Schwitters, Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian, Stuart Saunders Smith, Adriano Celentano, and Eduard Khil. Unlike previous …
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Participation in the Digital Public: New Media Art as Online Community
… Nam June Paik concerning a radio performance by John Cage, that community online art projects exist as the newest example of new media art because of a utilization and implementation of established and functioning technology. Through the application of Internet technology, contemporary artists, …
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Presencing Absence
… Heidegger and the works of such artists as John Cage, George Brecht, Pauline Oliveros, Bill Wegman, David Hammons and others.
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Requiem for wandering souls for orchestra
… by Edgard Varèse; Takemitsu, shaped by John Cage; and Isang Yun, guided by Boris Blacher, exemplify this intercultural synthesis. However, the blending of cultures is not a new phenomenon exclusive to the 20th and 21st centuries. The music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for example, offers …
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I. On Process II. Portfolio of Compositions
… with the music of Claude Debussy, Béla Bartók, John Cage and Franco Donatoni. In the second chapter, I explore my own process of composing by looking into each of the ten individual pieces from my PhD Portfolio of Compositions. II. Portfolio of Compositions: 1. Elegy for Fir Tree for eight …
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Practices of Listening: (Re)percussions of Sound, Silences and Censorship from (Post-)Apartheid South Africa
… control. Using the artistic productions of John Cage, I examine silence as both an object—a recording in a fixed medium—and as a verb directly addressing the question of censorship of the self and of others. The interplay of silencing and silence is expressed in my artistic practice which …
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Mud and Ashes.
… Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, from March 28 to April 1, 2005. The exhibition marks a turning point in the artist’s work, occupying a beginning place as he completes his graduate career. The work consists of fifteen paintings and one sculptural …
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Intermedial Relationships Among Component Arts in Combined Art Works
… terminology and features examples that include John Cage and Lejaren Hiller's HPSCHD, Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and Leonide Massine's Parade, Salavatore Martirano's L. 's G. A., Mike Figgis' Time Code, Christopher Preissing's Enigmatic Game, Allan Kaprow's Eat, Richard Schechner's …
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Portfolio of original composition
… to this current body of research.<br/><br/>In John Cage’s well-known essay "The Future of Music: Credo" he said:<br/>1 believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for …
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