JOHN CAGE+GEORGE FLYNN WINTER MUSIC-WOUND LP AVANT-GARDE-MIMAROGLU-QUADRADISC

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JOHN CAGE / GEORGE FLYNN

WINTER MUSIC / WOUND LP

Finnadar Records

Rare original from the 70's, with John Cage and George Flynn on "Winter Music" and "Wound". Produced by Ilhan Mimaroglu.

Some info on the release: Rare original issue, released in Usa sometime in the mid 70's on the great Finnadar label (Jean Dubuffet, Doris Hays, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Frederic Rzewski, etc.). "Although previously recorded (on Deutsche Grammophon) in a simultaneous performance with the composer's 'Atlas Eclipticalis' and 'Cartridge Music,' the present recording is the first of 'Winter Music' by itself... George Flynn played the piece four times, picking the pages of the score indeterminately for each run. These four performances were recorded on four separate tape tracks by means of a multi-channel tape recorder, in a way to appear, when this record is heard in quad, on the corresponding loudspeaker (when it is heard in stereo, the rear channels, i.e. tracks 2 and 4, will appear together with tracks 1 and 3 on the left and right speakers respectively.". Produced by Ilhan Mimaroglu.

John Milton Cage Jr. was a pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde and, in the opinion of many, the most influential American composer of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for the most part of the latter's life. Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4?33?, the three movements of which are performed without a single note being played. A performance of 4?33? can be perceived as including the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, rather than merely as four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence and has become one of the most controversial compositions of the century. Another famous creation of Cage's is the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by placing various objects in the strings), for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces, the most well-known of which is Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48).

His teachers included Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg(1933–35), both known for their radical innovations in music, but Cage's major influences lay in various Eastern cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of chance-controlled music, which he started composing in 1951. The I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic text on chance events, became Cage's standard composition tool for the rest of his life. In a 1957 lecture, Experimental Music, he described music as "a purposeless play" which is "an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living". Cage collaborated with David Tudor, Robert Rauschenberg, and Charles Olson at Black Mountain College where a performance took place amongst the audience. "Happenings", as set forth by Cage, are theatrical events that abandoned the traditional concept of stage-audience and occur without a sense of definite duration; instead, they are left to chance. They have a minimal script, with no plot. In fact, a " Happening" is so-named because it occurs in the present, attempting to arrest the concept of passing time. Cage believed that theater was the closest route to integrating art and (real) life. The term "Happenings" was coined by Allan Kaprow, one of his students, who was to define it as a genre in the late fifties. In following these developments Cage was strongly influenced byAntonin Artaud’s seminal treatiseThe Theatre and Its Double, and the “Happenings” of this period can be viewed a forerunner to the ensuing Fluxus movement. In October of 1960, Mary Baumeister's Cologne studio hosted a joint concert by Cage and the video artist Nam June Paik, who in the course of his 'Etude for Piano' cut off Cage's tie and then washed his co-performer’s hair with shampoo.

Condition: Vinyl and cover lie in excellent condition, cover looks very clean with the lightest age wear while looks perfect and plays with occasional crackle (see picture).

Tracklist

A Wound Composed By – George Flynn 22:27 B Winter Music Composed By – John Cage 20:10

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