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Ep. 14 – Aesthetics and Mystical Vision

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Eliminating Exterior Noise

i have wrestled with television stations and told them that this is an abomination. It would be terrible fopa for another TV camera to be seen on the camera that is transmitting the signal. So likewise, when you're listening to the radio, although it's done in a perfectly silent studio, suddenly a truck goes by or a jet plane goes over - but so what? Who cares? An extraordinary eccentric called john cage experimented with opening up the piano and attaching paper clips, nails and washers to the strings. He played regular set pieces of various kinds, but with what he called a prepared piano. Then he got weirder. He decided that he would set up in a row

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