Into Silence - The Poetics of Hearing in Experimental Music since Cage
Prolific text-score composer Mark So inaugurates our writing series with a sweeping anti-review of the experimental tradition from John Cage to the present.
As much a score as an essay, "Into Silence" invites you to read, and act, through the eyes of John Cage, John Ashbery, Henri Bergson and many more.
The essay is accompanied by 22 reproductions of new and historic scores by:
Morton Feldman, John Cage, John Ashbery, George Brecht, Christian Wolff, Alison Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney, Antoine Beuger, Radu Malfatti, Istvàn Zelenka, Jürg Frey, Eva-Maria Houben, Michael Pisaro, Manfred Werder, James Orsher, Adam Overton, Mark So, G. Douglas Barrett, Joseph Kudirka, Tashi Wada
This essay comes in two PDF downloads:
Click here to download the essay text.
Click here to download the accompanying scores.
