Index to Daniel Charles/John Cage: For The Birds, Boston/London (Marion Boyars) 1981

Version 1.82 (6/10/2003)
Explanations/Key to index
Usage is free for non-commerical use; © CG 2001-2003
Compiler of index: Clemens Gresser c.gresser@gmx.net


Part 2



Places
A

America (USA)

89, 96, 123, 124, 131, 172, 180, 188, 212, 26

Amsterdam

201

B

Basel

126 (FN1), 159

Baux de Provence

157

Berkley

214

Black Mountain College, North Carolina

52, 157, 164, 165, 166, 187, 212

Brandeis University

164

Brussels

125

Buffalo

135

C

California

188

Chicago

160, 167, 171, 195, 217

China / Chinese

215, 227, 230

Cincinnati

112, 213

Cologne

20, 125, 167

Columbia University

94, 105

Concord

112, 185

Connecticut

226

D

Darmstadt

44, 124, 126, 168, 235

Denmark

110

Donaueschingen

51, 125

E

Europe / European

69, 105, 125, 126, 131, 182, 212

F

France

75, 89, 123, 180, 181, 193

G

Germany / German

106, 23

H

Harvard

115

Hawaii

237

Holland / Netherlands

183 (FN1)

I

Illinois

213

India

22, 56, 105, 215

IRCAM

118 (FN1)

J

Japan / Japanese

17, 200, 201, 202, 211, 214, 215, 220, 227, 231, 232

K

Kyoto

158

L

Little Rock, Arkansas

134

London

125, 126 (FN1)

Los Angeles

69, 70, 134

M

Manhattan

187 (FN1)

Mexico

218

Milan

125

Minneapolis

196

N

New England

131

New School for Social Research (NY)

70, 88

New York

48, 75, 85, 120, 124, 125, 132, 136, 153, 162, 177, 180, 185, 186, 187, 188, 200, 202, 217, 232

North Carolina

218

Northwestern University

161 (FN1)

O

Orient

105

P

Palermo

136

Pamplona

126 (FN1), 212 (FN1)

Paris

123, 125, 163, 172, 178, 193, 196, 221

Pennsylvania

189

Philadelphia

114, 226

R

Rockland County

187 (FN1), 188

Ryoan-ji, garden of

231-232

S

San Francisco

157 (FN1), 213

Santa Monica

70

Seattle, Washington

49, 74, 158, 160, 162

Seville

131

Spain

116

Stockholm

125

Stony Point

 
  • general

    • 61-62, 185-188

  • reason for leaving it

    • 62 (FN2), 187

    T

    Texas

    189

    Tokyo

    214

    Toronto

    168

    U

    University of California (LA)

    71

    University of California (Santa Cruz)

    188 (FN1)

    University of California at Berkley

    213

    University of California at Davis

    89

    University of Illinois

    131, 141, 143, 194, 196, 204, 220, 235

    University of Paris VIII

    203

    University of Southern California

    71

    University of Wisconsin

    55

    V

    Vermont

    188

    Virginia

    114, 189

    W

    Walden

    112

    Wesleyan University

    55, 115, 214

    Y

    Yale University

    56

    Z

    Zagreb

    180

    Zurich

    125



    Works of others

    A

    Artaud, Antonin

    - The Theater and Its Double

    52, 123, 165, 166

    B

    Bartok, Bela

    - String Quartets

    99 (FN1)

    Beckett, L. C.

    - Neti, Neti

    93 + 93 (FN1)

    Bois, Yve-Alain

    - [title not mentioned; on Marcel Duchamp; in: VH 101, No.3, Autumn 1970 » p. 63]

    116

    Boulez, Pierre

    		 
  • Second Sonata

    • 123-124

  • Structures

    • 123

  • Le Marteau sans maître

    • 123

  • Sonatina for Flute and Piano

    • 123

    Brahms, Johannes

    - Hungarian Dances

    73

    Brown, Norman O.

    		 
  • Love's Body

    • 112, 226

  • Life Against Death

    • 112

    Bussotti, Sylvano

    - Five Piano Pieces

    124

    C

    Carroll, Lewis

    - Alice in Wonderland

    18

    Casella, Alfredo

    - The Cadence

    225, 225 (FN1)

    Chuang-tze

    - Writings

    225 (FN1)

    Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.

    		 
  • The Transformation of Nature

    • 105, 225 (FN1)

  • The Dance of Shiva

    • 105

    Critchlow, Keith

    - Dinner on the Lawn

    [ed. by Douglas Messerli]

    213 (FN1)

    Cunningham, Merce

    		 
  • Canfield

    • 172

  • Squaregame

    • 178 (FN1)

    D

    Descartes, René

    - Discours de la méthode

    231

    Duchamp, Marcel

    		 
  • Le Grand Verre

    • 116

  • La Mariée nue (Etant donné 1° La chute d'eau 2° Le gaz d'éclairage)

    • 116, 116 (FN1)

  • untitled musical project

    • 161

    F

    Feldman, Morton

    - String Quartet (1970/1971?)

    149 (FN1)

    Freedman, Hal

    		 
  • Ring Précis

    • 99 (FN1)

  • Précis 2

    • 99 (FN1)

    Fuller, Buckminster

    - any books

    225 (FN1)

    G

    Goodman, Nelson

    - Languages of Art

    129

    Graham, Martha

    - Celebration

    162

    Grenier, Jean

    - Daily Life

    87

    H

    Hansen, Al

    - Alice Denham in 48 Seconds

    20

    Herrigel, Eugen

    - Book on Archery

    231

    Huizinga, Johan

    - Homo Ludens

    210

    I

    Ives, Charles

    - One Hundred and Thirteen Songs

    237

    J

    Joyce, James

    - Finnegans Wake

    118, 141 (FN1), 181 (FN2), 211

    K

    Kagel, Mauricio

    - Ludwig Van

    98

    Karshan, Donald

    - Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects

    152

    Kauffman, C.H.

  • The Agaricaeae of Michigan

    • 225, 225 (FN1)

    Kosugi, Takehisa

  • music for Squaregame

    • (M. Cunningham)

    178 (FN1)

    L

    Lan-Yeou, Fong

    - Précis d’histoire de la philosophie chinoise

    228 (FN1), 230 (FN1)

    Lucier, Alvin

    - Music for Solo Performer

    221, 222

    M

    Malarmé, Stéphane

    - Book

    180

    McLuhan, Marshall

    - The Agenbite of Outwit

    [article in 1st issue of Location]

    225

    Milhaud, Darius

    - Ma vie heureux

    185 (FN1)

    Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

    		 
  • Instructions for Composing Waltzes With the Help of Two Dice (Musikalisches Würfelspiel)

    • 143

  • Sonatas for Piano

    • 143

    Mumma, Gordon

    - Configuration

    209

    N

    Neuhaus, Max

    - Fontana Mix-Feed

    134

    O

    O'Donnell Hoover, Kathleen ["and" J.C.!]

    - Life of Virgil Thomson

    86

    Oliveros, Pauline

    - music for Canfield (M. Cunningham)

    172, 173

    P

    Paik, Nam June

    - [The] Hommage to John Cage

    20, 167, 232

    Pfeiffer, Franz

    - Meister Eckhart

    225 (FN1)

    R

    Ramakrishna, Sri

    - Gospel

    225 (FN1)

    Rauschenberg, Robert

    - White Paintings

    165

    Richter, Hans

    - Dreams That Money Can Buy

    193

    Russolo, Luigi

    - The Art of Noise

    225 (FN1)

    S

    Satie, Eric

    		 
  • Furniture music (musique d'ameublement)

    • 24

  • Socrate

    • 144, 177, 179

  • Vexations

    • 48-49, 153, 154, 222

    Schaeffer, Pierre

    - Symphony for A Single Man

    164

    Schoenberg, Arnold

    - Opus 11

    70

    Stent, Gunther

    		 
  • The Coming of the Golden Age

    • 213

  • The Golden Age

    • 213

    Stockhausen, Karlheinz

    		 
  • Klavierstück XI

    • 125, 197

  • Opus 1970

    • 98

  • Song of the Adolescents (Gesang der Jünglinge) 23

    • 222

  • unnamed piece (performed in 1967, Stockholm); ‘controlling 12 composers’ 24

    • 168

    T

    Thoreau, David

    		 
  • Essay on Civil Disobedience

    • 110

  • Journal

    • 23, 186, 225, 234

  • Walden

    • 113, 185

    Tobey, Mark

    - White Writings

    158

    Tomkins, Clavins

    - The Bride and The Bachelor

    206

    Tudor, David

    		 
  • Rainforest

    • 120 (FN1), 126 (FN1)

  • Untitled

    • 120 (FN1), 126 (FN1)

    U

    U'llah, Baha

    - Book of Certitude

    158

    V

    Varèse, Edgar

    - Ionization

    73 25

    W

    Waddington, C.H.

    - Biology and the History of the Future

    213, 213 (FN2)

    Watts, Allan

    - Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen

    107

    Wagner, Richard

    - Ring Cycle

    99 (FN1)

    Wolff, Christian

    - Burdocks

    152 (FN1)

    Wolpe, Stefan

    - Battle Piece

    123

    X

    Xenakis, Iannis

    		 
  • Nomos Alpha

    • 199

  • Herma and Eonta

    • 199

    Y

    Yun, Hsi

    - Huang-Po Doctrine of Universal Mind

    225 (FN1), 227, 227 (FN1)



    22 Actually: The gilled mushrooms (Agaricaceae) of Michigan and the Great Lakes.   Back

    23 I believe that this is a bad translation of Stockhausen's work Gesang der Jünglinge.   Back

    24 Do you know the title of this piece? If so, please tell me.  Back
    25 David Nicholls pointed out to me that Cage must have heard it in 1933, not in 1935; as mentioned by Cage.  Back




    Headings/keywords, given at the beginning of each interview


    A Dialogue with

    John Cage

    followed by a discussion

    (Tuesday, October 27, 1970, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris)

  • Structure and material: method and form
  • Works from his youth
  • Prepared piano
  • Function of silence
  • Application of Zen to music
  • Beyond expressivity [sic!]: use of chance
  • Liberation of time
  • The I Ching
  • About some accidents
  • On relationships
  • What remains of organization
  • Instant, duration, repetition
  • Against the ego
  • Electro-acoustic techniques and ‘live electronic music’
  • Importance of space
  • Musicircus
  • On the proper use of happenings
  • Anarchy and the utilities
  • On some recent concerts
  • Against politics
  • Discussion

    • 35-62

    First Interview

    (between Christmas and New Year’s Day 1970-1971)

  • The beginnings: Buhlig, Cowell, Schoenberg
  • On the importance of time
  • Fischinger and the question of noise
  • Distance with regard to Varèse
  • Concerning electro-acoustic music
  • Discussion on the idea of solfeggio
  • Experimental and anarchical music
  • Criticism of relationships
  • Indeterminacy and its precariousness
  • The world evolving

    • 69-81

    Second Interview

  • Virgil Thomson
  • On immobility and mobility
  • While going nowhere
  • Art as life
  • Against philosophies of life
  • Stasis and absence of goals
  • Pupils
  • Universities
  • McLuhan: opening onto that which is
  • The will to disorder
  • On the opportunity for non-intention
  • Interpenetration and non-obstruction
  • The question of Nothing
  • Fuller and the number three
  • On chance
  • Suzuki and Chuang-tze
  • About the I Ching; Taoism and modern science
  • Debate on noise and the non-act
  • Responsibility toward everything that is
  • Importance of utilities
  • Abundance and disrespect
  • Liberty: live and let live

    • 85-100

    Third Interview

  • The aesthetic thought of India and the theory of emotions
  • Access to impersonality
  • Accepting
  • Homage to Coomaraswamy
  • Meister Eckhart
  • About Alan Watts on the correct usage of the Far East
  • In praise of Buckminster Fuller
  • The Marxist objection
  • Discussion: the meaning of anarchy
  • The example of Thoreau
  • Criticism of prisons
  • The need for a poetic life: Norman O. Brown
  • Attitudes toward technique
  • Indeterminacy applied to language: Thoreau Mix
  • Homage to Duchamp
  • About lettrism
  • ‘A poetry of infinite possibilities’
  • From Silence to A Year from Monday
  • The mosaic from or chance in letters
  • Significance of Joyce
  • Vocal music: Cathy Berberian and the Song Books
  • Non linearity

    • 103-120

    Fourth Interview

  • David Tudor: interpreter and composer
  • Touring with David Tudor
  • Abolishing the composer’s ego
  • Writing Variations II
  • On notation, conceived as a means of liberating time
  • The performer’s revolt
  • The meaning of space: superimposed works and non-linearity
  • A criticism of recordings: Variations IV
  • About Cartridge Music
  • From object to process
  • Live electronic music: the problems of conception and performance

    • 123-138

    Five Interview

  • HPSCHD: A collaboration with Lejaren Hiller
  • The difficulties of programming
  • Mozart computerized
  • Cheap Imitation
  • Concerning the Concert for Piano and Orchestra: a bringing together of differences
  • The circus situation
  • Concerning Xenakis
  • Openness
  • Contingency
  • Conversation and communication
  • On La Monte Young and Feldman: music-objects
  • The riddle of process
  • Musicalization of language
  • About Terry Riley
  • In praise of Christian Wolff
  • On conceptual art
  • The impossibility of eliminating experience
  • The paradox of Vexations
  • In reference to Wittgenstein

    • 141-154

    Sixth Interview

  • Relationships with painters: Rauschenberg and Mark Tobey
  • Calligraphy
  • Developing techniques of writing
  • Notations: the aquarium
  • Collaborating with Merce Cunningham
  • Space: co-presence and simultaneity
  • The first happening at Black Mountain
  • Artaud and theatricalizing music
  • Different kinds of happenings
  • Kaprow and Higgins
  • Nam June Paik
  • Reunion and the idea of play
  • 33 1/3
  • The audience as participant; Newport Mix, Rozart Mix, Variations V
  • Jazz and free jazz
  • Concerning the Museum Event at Saint-Paul-de-Vence
  • Canfield
  • In praise of rock

    • 157-173

    Seventh Interview

  • Cheap Imitation: beyond indeterminacy
  • The presence of others in music
  • Homage to David Tudor
  • The plurality beyond the ego
  • The current situation in France
  • Pierre Boulez
  • Individualism
  • Love and tranquility
  • Devotion to Satie
  • The subject of the Song Books: Satie and Thoreau
  • Life at Stony Point
  • Mycology
  • Drugs and family feeling

    • 177-189

    Eighth Interview

  • Visual effects and film music
  • Image and sound in HPSCHD
  • Recording HPSCHD
  • The Paris Musicircus and the meaning of organization
  • On order and disorder; Stockhausen and Christian Wolff
  • On Xenakis
  • Japan and its music
  • On musical art as an invitation to nobility
  • The discipline of listening
  • Towards a Fulleresque university
  • Against the economy and making a living
  • Crimes of ‘action’ and employment

    • 193-205

    Ninth Interview

  • ‘Zero time’ and silence
  • Work and play
  • Against the rules
  • The ‘celebration’
  • Works to come
  • Keeping score between order and disorder
  • The I Ching and microbiology
  • Abundance
  • Quantity and quality
  • Living in the world
  • The role of money
  • Everything has already been thought
  • About interdisciplinarity [sic!]
  • The interior life of an ashtray
  • About Variations VII
  • Electroencephalographic music
  • Surrealism and Dada
  • Rhythm and irrelevance

    • 209-222

    Tenth Interview

  • John Cage’s list of the ten most significant books
  • The importance of Norman O. Brown
  • Sexuality
  • On Neo-Taoism
  • The equivalence of music and ecology
  • Ecology and the establishment
  • The music, equilibrium and Harmony of everything
  • On Henri Pousseur’s meliorism
  • Beyond subjectivity
  • Globalizing music
  • Revolution and synergy

    • 225-238




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