Kyle Gann, author of No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33", discusses this seminal work. This week's guest: Kyle Gann (https://www.kylegann.com) No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33" (https://amzn.to/2Duy5Wb) Show notes: Episode #80, John Cage (with Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust) (https://www.thenexttrack.com/83) Episode #69 – Brian Brandt of Mode Records on John Cage, Morton Feldman, and the Music Business (https://www.thenexttrack.com/72) Episode #102 - Silence (https://www.thenexttrack.com/105) John Cage and the Anechoic Chamber (https://www.kirkville.com/john-cage-and-the-anechoic-chamber/) Muzak (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak) Searching for Silence John Cage's Art of Noise, by Alex Ross (New Yorker) (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/searching-for-silence) David Tudor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tudor) John Cage: Silence: Lectures and Writings (https://amzn.to/2DfRbz3) John Cage performing Water Walk on I've Got a Secret, 1960 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSulycqZH-U) John Cale on I've Got a Secret, 1963 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mqO-xsRyTM) Joseph Campbell (Wikipedia) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell) New Music America festival, 1982 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Music_America) Harold Budd - Children on the Hill (transcr. Kyle Gann) (https://soundcloud.com/sarah-cahill8/harold-budd-children-on-the-hill-transcr-kyle-gann) From Brussels With Love (https://amzn.to/2QMvPfc)

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