TRIPLE CANOPY IN TEXAS WILL SOUND A LOT LIKE THIS.

On April 9, editor Alexander Provan is on a panel at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and on April 10, he joins Peter J. Russo and William S. Smith in a classroom at Southern Methodist University.

Above: John Cage playing an amplifed cactus with a feather, via emergentseas.

Kaneda: At that time, did you already have the perception that Group Ongaku was engaged in something very innovative?

Tone: Yes. We really did! We thought everyone in the music world was a bunch of old fogeys. You know, the phrase “John Cage shock” was hogwash they made up. On the other hand, there was a man named Hewell Tircuit who wrote a music column for the Japan Times. I think he still lives in Japan. He said what Cage was doing was something that had been developing in Japan for quite a while, and I’m sure he was making a veiled reference to Group Ongaku. So, the whole notion of “John Cage shock” was a fiction! Cage’s music and ideas weren’t such a shock—Japanese people accepted them with relative ease. After all, Cage himself said that Japan was the first country to recognize and understand what he was doing.

From Miki Kaneda’s interview with Japanese artist and musician Tone Yasunao. Read it at Post, MoMA’s new digital platform for global research, conceived and developed with TC Labs, the consulting wing of Triple Canopy.
Join Triple Canopy on May 10 at 7pm for the fourth evening of Cage Transmitted: Celebrating + Playing John Cage. The evening will feature two rarely seen performances reflecting on Cage’s relationship to Marcel Duchamp. Robert Whitman will perform a theater piece incorporating slides and film, Inside Out, which has never before been performed in New York, followed by the first public screening of a video of Cage reading Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Erik Satie: An Alphabet, a radio play from 1982.  155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY. May 10, 2012. Doors 7pm, performance 7:30pm. $5 suggested donation.  Above: Richard Hamilton, John Cage, Teeny Duchamp and Marcel Duchamp (background: Jasper Johns) looking at the set of Merce Cunningham’s Walkaround Time (Jasper Johns based his set design on Duchamp’s The Large Glass), 1968. Photo by James Klosty.
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Join Triple Canopy on May 10 at 7pm for the fourth evening of Cage Transmitted: Celebrating + Playing John Cage. The evening will feature two rarely seen performances reflecting on Cage’s relationship to Marcel Duchamp. Robert Whitman will perform a theater piece incorporating slides and film, Inside Out, which has never before been performed in New York, followed by the first public screening of a video of Cage reading Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Erik Satie: An Alphabet, a radio play from 1982. 

155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY. May 10, 2012. Doors 7pm, performance 7:30pm. $5 suggested donation. 

Above: Richard Hamilton, John Cage, Teeny Duchamp and Marcel Duchamp (background: Jasper Johns) looking at the set of Merce Cunningham’s Walkaround Time (Jasper Johns based his set design on Duchamp’s The Large Glass), 1968. Photo by James Klosty.

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