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…
Edited by Markus Mueller and Ulrike Groos with text by and about Diedrich Diederichsen, Mike Kelley, Hermann Nitsch, Raymond Pettibon, Dan Graham and more. Illustrated. The main text is only in German. Cologne: Oktagon Verlag, 1998. 8vo in wraps as issued. 360 pages, text mainly in German with a few…
Fine thorough introduction the work of Robert Ashley with introductory texts and interviews with Ashley and including Scores for “Dust” and “Celestial Excursions” and selection of other works from 1963 to 2008