Episode 164: “White Light/White Heat” by the Velvet Underground
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John Cage and Water Walk
In 1952, the year of water music, John Cage made his two biggest impacts on the cultural world. He came up with a system he referred to as micromacrocosmic rhythmic structure - what we would now call fractals. After a time he started moving away from the term music, preferring to refer to the art of noise or to organise sound. To understand Cage's 1952 work, you first have to understand that he had become heavily influenced by Zen,. at that time was very little known in the western world.
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