Yes, It's Sound, But Is It Music? ~ Avant Gard In Art
Where Rahsaan Roland Kirk never meets John Cage...
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"Prepare Thyself to Deal with a Miracle ~ in the key of W, if you please..."
Cage a serious modern composer seems like a avant guard coyote, a trickster from academia. Kirk is a musical shaman conjuring magic with his endless circular breath. In this video the two are juxtaposed never together but is a kind of “call and response” Cage poses questions and Kirk answers with an onslaught of music. Rahsaan is a force of nature, Cage is a force of intellect. They make beautiful poetry together, filmed in 1966.
Although Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage never actually meet in this film (Cage's enigmatic questions about sound are intercut with some of Kirk's more ambitious experiments with it) these two very different musical iconoclasts share a similar vision of the boundless possibilities of music. Kirk plays three saxes at once, switches to flute, incorporates tapes of birds played backwards, and finally hands out whistles to his audience and encourages them to accompany him, "in the key of W, if you please." Cage, on the other hand, is preparing a work for musical bicycle with David Tudor and Merce Cunningham at the Seville Theatre in London. Cage meets Rahsaan's music in an echo chamber, and he ends his search for the sound of silence in his favorite spot -- the anechoic chamber -- where it turns out to be the uproar of "your nervous system in operation." -- Martin Williams, JAZZ TIMES
John Cage (1912-1992)
http://www.ubu.com/film/cage.html
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Where Cage Meets Lichtensteiger ~ Art Is Made
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/index.html
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/cage01.html
Rahsaan Roland Kirk ~ Serenade to a Cuckoo
Rahsaan Roland Kirk ~ The Three Horned Man
Quiz; "Music is spiritual orgasm..."
a) Britney Spears
b) Miles Davis
c) Peaches
.
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Cage a serious modern composer seems like a avant guard coyote, a trickster from academia. Kirk is a musical shaman conjuring magic with his endless circular breath. In this video the two are juxtaposed never together but is a kind of “call and response” Cage poses questions and Kirk answers with an onslaught of music. Rahsaan is a force of nature, Cage is a force of intellect. They make beautiful poetry together, filmed in 1966.
Although Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage never actually meet in this film (Cage's enigmatic questions about sound are intercut with some of Kirk's more ambitious experiments with it) these two very different musical iconoclasts share a similar vision of the boundless possibilities of music. Kirk plays three saxes at once, switches to flute, incorporates tapes of birds played backwards, and finally hands out whistles to his audience and encourages them to accompany him, "in the key of W, if you please." Cage, on the other hand, is preparing a work for musical bicycle with David Tudor and Merce Cunningham at the Seville Theatre in London. Cage meets Rahsaan's music in an echo chamber, and he ends his search for the sound of silence in his favorite spot -- the anechoic chamber -- where it turns out to be the uproar of "your nervous system in operation." -- Martin Williams, JAZZ TIMES
John Cage (1912-1992)
http://www.ubu.com/film/cage.html
UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
http://www.ubu.com/
Where Cage Meets Lichtensteiger ~ Art Is Made
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/index.html
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/cage01.html
Rahsaan Roland Kirk ~ Serenade to a Cuckoo
Rahsaan Roland Kirk ~ The Three Horned Man
Quiz; "Music is spiritual orgasm..."
a) Britney Spears
b) Miles Davis
c) Peaches
.