Episode #123 - John Cage's Silent Piece 4'33", with Kyle Gann

Kyle Gann, author of No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33", discusses this seminal work.

This week's guest:

• Kyle Gann
• No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33"

Show notes:

• Episode #80, John Cage (with Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust)
• Episode #69 – Brian Brandt of Mode Records on John Cage, Morton Feldman, and the Music Business
• Episode #102 - Silence
• John Cage and the Anechoic Chamber
• Muzak (Wikipedia)
• Searching for Silence John Cage's Art of Noise, by Alex Ross (New Yorker)
• David Tudor
• John Cage: Silence: Lectures and Writings
• John Cage performing Water Walk on I've Got a Secret, 1960
• John Cale on I've Got a Secret, 1963
• Joseph Campbell (Wikipedia)
• New Music America festival, 1982
• Harold Budd - Children on the Hill (transcr. Kyle Gann)
• From Brussels With Love

Our next tracks:

• Brad Mehldau: After Bach
• Frank Zappa: Chunga's Revenge

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Special Guest: Kyle Gann.

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