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JOHN CAGE / STEVE REICH / MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS / RALPH GRIERSON
Three Dances & Four Organs
1975 U.S. pressing

Early evening warped tomfoolery.

About to paint my study bookshelf, and wanted something weird and a little out there.

This fits the bill and then some.

A curated program featuring Reich’s landmark “Four Organs For Four Electric Organs & Maracas” piece, as well as John Cage’s three-part “Three Dances For Two Amplified Prepared Pianos”.

It is a #minimal , post-modern #classical mindfuck.
Definitely not something you’d listen to while driving in your car or cue up at a party. 😂

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #abstract #artrock #weird #bizarre #fringe #stevereich #johncage

opere asemiche di differx esposte a palazzo collicola, spoleto, 2026 / video di dino ignani

il contesto è quello della mostra Vita minore, a cura di Gianni e Giuseppe Garrera: https://slowforward.net/2026/02/21/oggi-21-febbraio-a-palazzo-collicola-spoleto-vita-minore-a-cura-di-gianni-e-giuseppe-garrera

altri link: https://slowforward.net/2026/03/28/scritture-contro-il-linguaggio-a-palazzo-collicola/ e  https://slowforward.net/2026/03/14/differx-a-palazzo-collicola/

John Cage – the #Italian #quiz show winner!

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/mar/24/artists-side-hustles-john-cage-jean-genet-kathy-acker-shoplifting-sex-shows-sheepdog-breeding

' In the 1950s, the American #avantgarde composer #JohnCage turned a thoroughly wholesome hobby into an unexpected source of cash. The hobby was #mushrooms (non-psychedelic varieties). '

(…)

' Cage appeared in five episodes in 1959, where he was quizzed on – of course – his beloved mushrooms. At the end, the composer walked away with 5m lire, equivalent to about £70,000 today. He used his winnings to buy a Steinway piano. '

Shoplifting, sex shows and sheepdog-breeding: great artists and the side-hustles they did to get by https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/mar/24/artists-side-hustles-john-cage-jean-genet-kathy-acker-shoplifting-sex-shows-sheepdog-breeding #Culture #JohnCage #JeanGenet #ChantalAkerman #JeanlucGodard #Film #Books #Art #ArtAndDesign #Painting #ClassicalMusic #Music

John Cage é muito louco, né? Nos sete minutos a soprano canta uma pequena peça dele que sequer usa a notação musical padrão.

É estranho, mas a nossa mente precisa do estranho!

Isso tava num post tão antigo que os vídeos do TED ainda eram em flash! Concertei no post e aproveitei para assistir novamente.

https://www.ted.com/talks/claron_mcfadden_singing_the_primal_mystery

#musica #johncage #estranho

🧡 Couples 🧡

John Cage & Merce Cunningham

"It's very simple now, because I'm looking forward to seeing you again rather than backward to having seen you recently. That's a happy way to be" __ Cage

John Cage first met Merce Cunningham in 1938 when he was still married to Xenia Kashevaroff. Their paths crossed again in 1942 + Cage invited Cunningham, who was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, to work on a project. Their collaboration turned into a life-long creative + romantic partnership. Cunningham founded his own dance company in 1953 with Cage serving as the company’s music director, a position he held until his death. They staged over 50 dance works together.

#johncage #mercecunningham #couples #valentines #valentinesday #composer #choreogropher #dance #lovestory #lovestories

Pipe organ plays single song for 639 years | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/technology/pipe-organ-one-song-2640/
#JohnCage

Listening through the Cage/Feldman open-ended conversations, recorded at WBAI studios in New York (1966–67). Cage questioning Feldman’s ‘soft sounds,’ then sudden loud cut-ins, and more. https://archive.org/details/CageFeldmanConversation2

Publication (print): https://underbelly.nu/product/radio-happenings-conversations-1966-1967/
#JohnCage #Feldman #SoftSounds

The first annual John Cage competition was canceled because the organizers couldn't decide whether the tournament should occur inside of a cage, whether the cage was soundproof (as the repertoire was mostly silence), and whether or not the participants had to be named John

#musictheory #classicalfm #johncage #fromthedrafts

New blog post: How I came to know John Cage in the mountains of Western NC and regularly stumble on ways his thinking has helped me navigate complexity.

https://www.sounding.com/2026/01/20/scale-is-step-by-step/

#JohnCage #BlackMountain #Complexity #Riak #SaltStack #DistributedDatabases #DistributedSystems #ComplexSystems #SystemsThinking

John Cage: Landscapes (1948) Performance by Andrew Dawson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJ59Oa4wl8

Andrew Dawsons Antwort auf John Cage: Landscapes (1948) Gefilmt in seinem Studio in London im November 2015. http://www.andrewdawson.info – Mit Dank an Laura Kuhn, Direktorin des John Cage Trust.

#AndrewDawson #JohnCage #Landscapes1948 #MinoruOnoda #NeueMusik #Performance

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheSleepingForecast

John Cage & Bertrand Chamayou:
🎵 All Sides of the Small Stone (for Erik Satie)

#JohnCage #BertrandChamayou

https://cageedition.bandcamp.com/track/all-sides-of-the-small-stone-for-erik-satie

https://open.spotify.com/track/7tGWccySzho4XMngE1Qhvc

The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/onward-and-upward-with-the-arts/the-wild-sad-life-of-john-cages-first-lover

More work on Mesostic poetry yesterday, released v1.6.0 with timer refactor and other bug fixes. Now you can set up your own NASA API Key and change fetch intervals with an env var.

https://github.com/maroda/hpschd

#Mesostic #JohnCage #AutomatedPoetry

Xenia Kashevaroff Cage (she was married to John Cage from 1935 to 1945) has a Wikipedia entry that should be expanded. She was a good artist and had an interesting life, but it seems to be mostly documented in works about her husband (or other men, such as Joseph Campbell or Edward Weston). Her name is easy to search for but doesn't turn up much in sources I have access to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_Cage

#JohnCage #Wikipedia

More code!? Moar! Coad!

This is a Mesostic poetry API that I created. I used to have this running on AWS for like two years as an art project until $20/mo was too much to keep it running (with basically no visitors but a handful of friends).

That's why I'm trying to find near-free options for hosting art projects like this, and so I can do something cool like build a bot that posts them.

Anyhoo! It works in a container beautifully now with the ability to provide your own NASA API Key. I am trying to get the hang of Claude Code for my job search and used it to help me refactor around some buggy behavior.

https://github.com/maroda/hpschd

#Mesostic #JohnCage #AutomatedPoetry #APOD #NASA

Doubtsower – The Past Melts Away with a Sneer Review

By ClarkKent

It’s amazing how quickly November, and my month of doom, has flown by. It seems the constant exposure to slow-paced music has made the days move faster, not slower. For my final November doom promo, what could be more appropriate than one described as “one long song funeral doom?” While the Welsh doom band containing this descriptor, Doubtsower, is new to me, the man behind the project, Matt Strangis, has three previous releases dating back to 2021. Although most of these earlier albums cross the one-hour mark, none of the songs run longer than fifteen minutes 1, so this is new territory for Doubtsower. Strangis describes his own songwriting process as “punk DIY,” and he does much of his recording at home, with some mastering help from Greg Chandler of Esoteric. For insomniacs, one long funeral doom song sounds like the perfect cure, but be careful, this doesn’t backfire and instead keeps you hooked and wide awake.

While the premise of a 48-minute funeral doom song brings to mind other ambitious projects from Bell Witch and Oak, Doubtsower’s The Past Melts Away with a Sneer turns out to be one weird beast. Doubtsower isn’t exactly a funeral doom band, but an experimental doom band. Strangis keeps his one song’s tempo slow—funeral doom slow—yet it has much more in common with the avant-garde music of John Cage than My Dying Bride or Esoteric. It makes use of syncopated riffs that cut short and disorient listeners, as well as some unusual noises, such as static scratches and the clicking and rattling of ratchets. “The Past Melts Away with a Sneer” also makes use of silences, though they’re not as lengthy as “4’33,” largely as a transitional tool. This use of odd sounds, silent moments, and suspenseful repetitions of short riffs creates an unsettling mood early on, and with the mix of sludge, I couldn’t help but think of experimental sludge/horror/doom outfit When the Deadbolt Breaks.

Over the course of its 48 minutes, The Past Melts Away with a Sneer is an ever-shifting amalgamation of styles, an amorphic blob that somehow holds everything together as a cohesive whole. Sounds often shift minute-by-minute despite the glacial pacing. While the early goings have the John Cage thing going, at the 8-minute mark, the track breaks out into the one segment that sounds like traditional funeral doom, with plodding drum beats, crushing guitars, and a low, harsh growl. Yet just as you think this is the direction it’s going, the song goes silent and then shifts into a new form. The extensive use of silence and light droning makes the sudden bursts of energy peppered throughout all the more striking. About 20 minutes in, “The Past Melts Away with a Sneer” morphs into industrial dance, snapping you awake and commanding your body to move. The song morphs yet again, this time into something hopeful and poppy, with light, Weezer-like strums. However, even this segment doesn’t last long, and somehow Strangis is able to convince us that these disparate sounds all form one coherent tune.

It’s pretty impressive how “The Past Melts Away with a Sneer” is able to remain engaging for its entire run, but some moments of repetition do derail portions of the track. This is most egregious at 29 minutes as Doubtsower transitions into a lengthy portion of sludge/doom. Throughout this approximately eight-minute segment, there’s a consistent, repetitive riff that grows tiresome over time. Still, the song rights itself for the finale with the return of a catchy piano/synth melody from the beginning. As this melody begins to fade into silence and lulls you into a sense of closure, the track gains a second wind and hurls forth an energetic set of industrial riffs and blast beats. There’s an unpredictability that catches you off guard and keeps the record fresh.

If the album I described above sounds like a nightmare, that’s the whole point. It’s meant to be a “disorienting descent into a nihilistic free-for-all,” and Strangis succeeds in making that vision come to fruition. It may not always be easy listening, but it’s rarely boring. Having spent some time with the prior Doubtsower records, this one stands out as Strangis’s most engaging and best-written. The Past Melts Away with a Sneer has caused me to question my usually negative relationship with experimental metal. It has left me feeling disoriented, but in a good way, and it’s an experience that I recommend for the curious and lovers of the weird.

Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: WAV
Label: Self-Release
Website: Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: November 28th, 2025

#2025 #30 #avanteGarde #bellWitch #doomMetal #doubtsower #esoteric #experimentalMetal #funeralDoom #industrialMetal #johnCage #myDyingBride #nov25 #oak #review #reviews #selfReleased #sludgeMetal #thePastMeltsAwayWithASneer #weezer #welshMetal #whenTheDeadboltBreaks

"It won't sound like music...

it sounds like what we hear
when we're not hearing music,

whenever and wherever
we happen to be." -- John Cage

https://craque.bandcamp.com/track/happen-to-be

#craque #JohnCage #SilenceSunday