A Chance Operation - John Cage Tribute |  | Creators: John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, Christian Wolff, Ken Nordine, Kronos Quartet, Oregon, Patrick Moraz, Charles Turner, Earle Brown, David van Tieghem
Label: Classics
Category: Music
Buy New: £17.45
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 40650
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Running Time: 141 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.9
UPC: 099923723820
EAN: 0099923723820
ASIN: B000001SH6
Release Date: January 1, 1994
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Excerpt From Thirty Pieces for String Quartet - Kronos Quartet | | • | Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos, Dance #1 - Patrick Moraz | | • | First Four-Language Word Event - Jackson Mac Low, Anne Tardos | | • | Six Melodies Variation for Solo Violin - Christian Wolff, Roger Zahab | | • | Cage Went in Search of a Bird - Ken Nordine | | • | Three Solos for Trumpet - Earle Brown | | • | Cunningham Stories (At the Age of Twelve...) - Laurie Anderson | | • | Haiku FM - Ryuichi Sakamoto | | • | Art Is Self-Alteration Is Cage Is... - Larry Austin, Robert Black | | • | Webwork - David Tudor | | • | Georgia Stone - Yoko Ono |
Disc 2
| • | Cunningham Stories (Merce Cunningham Phoned His Mother...) - Laurie Anderson | | • | Chance/Choice - Oregon | | • | 75 Letters and Improvisation - Takehisa Kosugi | | • | Living Room Music - David Van Tieghem | | • | Ergodos I for John Cage - James Tenney | | • | Cunningham Stories (Every Morning...) - Laurie Anderson | | • | Factory Preset - Robert Ashley | | • | 4' 33" - Frank Zappa | | • | In Memoriam John Cage -- Call Waiting - John Cale | | • | Aria - Meredith Monk | | • | Cunningham Stories (The Cunningham Company...) - Laurie Anderson | | • | New York City |
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| Customer Reviews:
What? 183 tracks? Why? There is a reason... January 13, 2000
Sparky P. (composer, all around nice guy, yada yada yada)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
It might be bewildering at first. The first disc has 98 tracks; the second, 85. If you listen straight through, you do not perceive any discontinuity. A collection of John Cage pieces performed by friends, collegues, and admirers. Frank Zappa (American composer [complete biographical blurb that he provided]) contributed 4'33. Lauri Anderson tells a few Merce Cunningham tales. Seems like a fun tribute from the git-go. But wait! (And this is where the fun begins!) Switch your CD player to the shuffle (random) mode. Now look what happens. It goes from, say, Yoko Ono's piece to the Kronos to the Moraz prepared piano performance to Ken Nordine's narration - all in the matter of seconds. It is a great to homage to Cage himself with the great use of the random chance operations that he might have enjoyed. Every performance of this disc becomes a unique experience (just like Cage). For even more fun, try playing both discs at the same time (provided, of course, you have the means; if not, improvise). Or add another sound source as well, like, say, the radio, or the television very low, or a tape of white noise. The possibilities are endless. I had the pleasure of trying this one day with FOUR players going on simulataneously: two with these discs, another with Miles Davis far in the background, the fourth with a disc of bird calls. It was quite a fun sound environment and I would not hesitate to try it again. But that was my experience. Your experience may be different.
Great! September 3, 2001
Andreas Klein (lost somewhere...)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pure entertainment --- if you know what I mean... Yes, this IS a GREAT tribute to John Cage who himself is and might always be one of the really greatest (not only american) composers. I personally dig especially John Cale's and Frank Zappa's parts: both great composers too. But you should listen by yourself... Just enjoy the entertainment!
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