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November 4, 2010
The John Cage Trust
John Cage's Indeterminacy, with Director Laura Kuhn
Writer, director, performer, and John Cage collaborator, Laura Kuhn is Director and cofounder of the John Cage Trust, and the John Cage Professor of Performance Art at Bard College. She will perform Cage’s Indeterminacy, a work of antecdotes, each, regardless of length, read precisely in one minute, accompanied by an “improvised” electronic score involving certain of Cage’s works manipulated by a DJ/turntableist. This performance features DJ Tadd Mullinix, Ghostly International recording artist.
A featured event of ONCE. MORE. - a 50th Anniversary Celebration of the ONCE Festival presented in collaboration with the Institute for the Humanities, the University Musical Society (UMS), the School of Music Theater & Dance, and the Center for Performing Arts Technology.
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Selected Bibliography
- John Cage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- John Cage Trust.
- JohnCage.org.
- Cage, John., Jeremy. Millar, Hayward Gallery., Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art., John Cage Trust., and Cage, John. CageTalk: dialogues with and about John Cage. Eastman studies in music,1071-9989 ;v. 38. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006.
- Cage, John., and David Tudor. Indeterminacy new aspect of form in instrumental and electronic music: ninety stories with music. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian/Folkways, p1992.
- Cage, John and Joan Retallack. Musicage: Cage muses on words, art, music. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, 1996.
- Hayward Touring (Exhibition). 2010. Every day is a good day: the visual art of John Cage. London : New York, NY: Hayward Publishing ; Distributed in North America by D.A.P.
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