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Musicworks 52 - John Cage (CD+magazine)

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One of the best magazines of experimental music / sound art, founded by John Oswald and published since 1978. Includes feaurures, essays, interviews, reviews, etc., and comes with a CD with (often exclusive) music/sound in relation to the contents of the magazine. This rare issue is fully dedicated to John Cage and the CD includes recordings unavailable elsewhere.Paul Dutton, improvisation, sephardic music, Stan Brakhage, etc..

condition (disc/magazine): NM / EX

10"x8", 64- to 72-page (depending on the issue) stapled magazine.

Issue 52 of the Toronto magazine, given over to John Cage, with his own writings and scores and essays on him by Daniel Charles, Richard Kostelanetz, Andrew Culver and others. The CD opens with Margaret Leng Tan playing In a Landscape on WNYC on Cage's 79th birthday in 1991, and later One on string piano.

There is also a 1964 Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music from the San Francisco Tape Music Center with David Tudor, Pauline Oliveros and Morton Subotnick, an excerpt of Europera 5, and homages by Udo Kasemets and Linda Catlin Smith, ending with a mix of phone messages left by callers for his 65th birthday in 1977.

Details
Cat. number: MW 52
Year: 1993

Release notes

Included with issue 55 of Musicworks magazine which is a John Cage issue with his writings, scores, and writings about him by Daniel Charles, Andrew Culver, Michele Porzio, Richard Kostelanetz, Eric De Visscher; plus writing by Stan Brakhage, announcements, sources, colloquies, and classifieds. Track 1 recorded during a live broadcast from the studios of WNYC in New York which took place on John Cage's 79th birthday, 5 September 1991. Track 2 performed 3 April 1964 at the San Francisco…

Tracklist
By John Cage
1In A Landscape8:17
2Atlas Eclipticalis With Winter Music (Electronic Version, 1957) [Excerpt]14:35
3Europera 5 [Excerpt]15:01
4One9:35
For John Cage
5Hexagram #14 For John Cage: A Yi Jing Jitterbug Vococtet9:26
6Music For John Cage3:53
7C(ag)elebrations Messagemix14:00
Credits
Eric De Visscher
Compiled By [Recording Editors], Liner Notes
Gayle Young
Compiled By [Recording Editors], Liner Notes
Wende Bartley
Compiled By [Recording Editors]
Bob Wilcox
Design
Jack Behrens
Liner Notes
Margaret Leng Tan
Liner Notes
Peter Anson
Liner Notes
Udo Kasemets
Liner Notes
Peter Maes
Photography By [CD Photo]
Randall Smith
Technician [Technical Production]

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