Wesleyan University Press,1983 (1973). Squarish softcover. (12), 217 pages. Fine clean and attractive copy Includes the texts “Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)”, and “Mushroom Book”. These early printings are much better than the more recent new
Institute for Danish Sound Archeology / Institut for Danskl Lydarkæologi, IDL 15. LP. Bent Lorentzen is widely considered one of the key figures and pioneers of early Danish electronic music and he was one of a few classically trained composers seeking out the possibilities of the new technology in the…
The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…