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WP_110/ 2006
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Paintings 2 | | Medium: | acrylic on canvas board | | Size (inches): | 18.1 x 15 | | Size (mm): | 46 x 38 | | Catalog #: | WP_0110 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I needed it
-John Cage
John Cage's most famous musical composition is called 4'33".
It consists of the pianist going to the piano, and not hitting any keys for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. (He uses a stopwatch to time this.) In other words, the entire piece consists of silences -- silences of different lengths, they say.
On the one hand, as a musical piece, 4'33" leaves almost no room for the pianist's interpretation: as long as he watches the stopwatch, he can't play it too fast or too slow; he can't hit the wrong keys; he can't play it too loud, or too melodramatically, or too subduedly.
On the other hand, what you hear when you listen to 4'33" is more a matter of chance than with any other piece of music -- nothing of what you hear is anything the composer wrote.
-interglacial.com/~sburke/stuff/cage_433.html
Maverick Concert Hall:
DIRECTIONS - From New York City and points south: Take the George Washington Bridge to the Palisades Parkway North until Exit 9 West and join the New York State Thruway North (I 87). Drive north to Exit 19, Kingston. Follow signs to Route 28 West and continue about 8 miles to the Woodstock turnoff, Route 375. (Route 28 reduces here from 4 to 2 lanes). Follow 375 for 1.5 miles and turn left onto Maverick Road. Entrance is about 0.7 miles on right. Enter slowly and follow parking attendant's directions. Travel time from New York City is about 2 hours 15 minutes.
Maverick Concert Hall, was hand built in 1916 in the midst of pristine woods and now it is a multi-starred attraction on the National Register of Historic Places. By presenting concerts by nationally and internationally known performers at affordable prices, Maverick Concerts continues the vision of Hervey White, founder of the collaborative 101 year old Maverick Art Colony. White invited the most creative American musicians and composers to his "music chapel" in the woods. Enthusiastic artists and volunteers built the hand-hewn hall in 1916 and it was restored in 1977.
John Cage and 4’33" at the Maverick:
One evening in August 1952, the Maverick Concert Hall was the scene of a revolutionary moment in musical history. Here in the woods, the young pianist David Tudor performed the premiere of John Cage’s most famous—and most infamous—work, 4’33” (Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds). Although the work has often been called the “silent” piece, Cage wanted to show that a lack of notes was not the same thing as silence. The pianist read the score, turned pages, and closed the piano lid after each “movement,” but he never touched a single key.
In explaining his thought processes, Cage later wrote: “I went into an anechoic chamber, not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part…. I found out that silence is not acoustic. It is a change of mind, a turning around. I devoted my music to it. My work became an exploration of non-intention.” Cage wanted his audience to listen to the sounds around them and even to the sounds inside their bodies, and to realize that what we hear is what we choose to hear. This pivotal performance at Maverick expanded the boundaries of music forever.
-www.maverickconcerts.org/About_2.html
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