John Cage

Darragh Morgan & John Tilbury - Morton Feldman - For John Cage (2020)

Darragh Morgan & John Tilbury - Morton Feldman - For John Cage (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 247 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 216 Mb | Scans included | 01:23:59
Avant-Garde Classical | Label: Diatribe Records

The story of how Morton Feldman and John Cage first met has now become elevated to the status of legendary musical folklore. During a 1950 New York Philharmonic performance of Webern’s Symphony Op. 21, Feldman decided to leave the concert at the interval. In the lobby he met Cage. As Cage says, “we both walked out of a Philharmonic concert in which Webern had just been played, and we shared the desire not to hear anything else because we had been so deeply moved.” It was the beginning of a deep friendship that was to influence both their respective creative spirits. Morton Feldman became a friend, flatmate and student of John Cage.

Big Fish Audio John Cage Prepared Piano MULTiFORMAT (repost)  Software

Posted by orientazure at Jan. 15, 2012
Big Fish Audio John Cage Prepared Piano MULTiFORMAT (repost)

Big Fish Audio John Cage Prepared Piano MULTiFORMAT (repost) | 261 Mb

The original prepared piano and the only samples ever to be authorized by the estate of world-renown composer, John Cage. This particular collection of sounds was created for use in his magnum opus composition, Sonatas & Interludes (February 1946-March 1948). Using his original materials and following the precise instructions found at the head of his published score, various "mutes" were inserted between the strings of the keys, then each note pristinely recorded and programmed to bring you the instrument as Cage himself both envisioned and performed. Forty-five of the piano's eighty-eight keys were prepared, eleven with double preparations; three dynamic levels in five articulations comprise a total of 1,320 samples. This landmark achievement makes an authentic prepared piano, and by extension the works of John Cage, available to sampler owners in one of the most unique virtual instruments ever created.

John Cage: Works for Percussion  Music

Posted by peachfuzz at Jan. 1, 2007
John Cage: Works for Percussion

John Cage: Works for Percussion (WER 62032)
Classical | APE & CUE | 3 parts / 207 MB


"Silence. Sounds are only bubbles on its surface. They burst to disappear."
―John Cage

Of all the composers of the twentieth century John Cage (1912–1992) is doubtless one of the most inventive and the most determined in the pursuit of his musical goals. The significance of the seven pieces brought together here is the striking panorama of the intelligence of the material presented, over a period of four years, from 1939 to 1943, by the composer whom the critic Fred Goldbeck described as “the greatest Giraudouxian of our age”.

Beware. This is not your ordinary Joe-sixpack music. Download at your own risk!

John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano  Music

Posted by hopscotch at Dec. 17, 2008
John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano

John Cage: Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano
Classical | EAC, APE & CUE) | 286 MB + 246 MB + 199 MB

John Cage is one of the giants of 20th century contemporary music. While he never wrote anything you'd call Classical Top 40, his music up to 1950 is far more accessible than the random and chance-influenced pieces he created later on. These mysterious, wispy pieces sound as though they were written for a small ensemble of ghostly percussion instruments, although they are played by a single performer playing a piano with various gadgets attached to the strings. His composing, performing and philosophy are intertwined, and Cage has influenced innumerable composers and performers in classical, jazz and rock music. Cage has made a life's work out of music-as-sound and sound-as-music.

John Cage - Complete Piano Music Vol.2 (1998)  Music

Posted by basa005 at July 9, 2010
John Cage - Complete Piano Music Vol.2 (1998)

John Cage - Complete Piano Music Vol.2 (1998)
EAC RIP | APE + CUE + LOG | COVER + BOOK | RAR FILES (3% recovery) | 2CD 333 Mb
Classical | Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 613 0784-2
John Cage - Bird Cage (2000) {Electronic Music Foundation EMF CD 013}

John Cage - Bird Cage (2000) {Electronic Music Foundation EMF CD 013}
XLD rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 318 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 142 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 26 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2000 Electronic Music Foundation | EMF CD 013
Contemporary Classical / Electronic / Experimental / Avant-Garde

In 1972, John Cage, accompanied by a film crew from Germany, went to upstate New York to work for 3 days in the State University of New York at Albany's electronic music studio. He carried with him three piles of tapes: (1) sounds of birds in aviaries that he had made in the prior two weeks, (2) recordings of himself singing his 'Mureau', and (3) ambient sounds. While listening to tapes of himself singing Mureau, he commented, "It makes the birds seem less ridiculous." The result was 'Birdcage', a complex, exuberant, and joyful fabric of juxtapositions of all of the sounds, to be played back in a space in which, as Cage put it, people were free to move and birds to fly.
Bruce Brubaker - Glass Cage: Music for piano by Philip Glass and John Cage (2000)

Bruce Brubaker - Glass Cage: Music for piano by Philip Glass and John Cage (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 197 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 145 Mb | Scans ~ 45 Mb
Classical, Minimalism | Label: Arabesque | # Z6744 | Time: 01:03:35

Though he may not be a piano superstar, Bruce Brubaker is clearly a musician to watch. On this recording of solo piano works by Philip Glass and John Cage, Brubaker somehow shifts between these two very different modernist composers to create a seamless disc of mesmerizing keyboard music. While Glass's own playing is often precise and austere, Brubaker is a different beast altogether. With him, we get a hint of Impressionism and a sense of contemplation with each note. The five parts of Metamorphosis are given shades of melancholy, along with frenzy; on the expansive "Mad Rush," Brubaker goes wild where he has to, but always returns to the piece's calming, sweet center. The piano music of John Cage is limited to just two cuts–"A Room" and "Dream"–but they, too, are hauntingly beautiful (especially the latter, longer piece).

John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics: John Cage and the Performance of Nature  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tarantoga at Oct. 3, 2014
John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics: John Cage and the Performance of Nature

Peter Jaeger, "John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics: John Cage and the Performance of Nature"
ISBN: 1441104666, 1441117520 | 2013 | EPUB | 144 pages | 1 MB

Herbert Henck: John Cage - Early Piano Music (2005)  Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 6, 2022
Herbert Henck: John Cage - Early Piano Music (2005)

Herbert Henck: John Cage - Early Piano Music (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 188 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Scans included | 01:09:20
Contemporary Classical, Minimalism | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1844, 476 1515

John Cage: Early Piano Music comes from Herbert Henck, an experienced hand with the work of Cage, having previously recorded Music for Piano, Music of Changes, and Sonatas and Interludes in addition to a mighty swath of first-tier twentieth-century literature for piano for various labels, most notably Wergo and ECM New Series. These are early works for standard, not prepared, piano, and some of these pieces will be as familiar to dyed-in-the-wool Cageans as "Happy Birthday." This puts the pressure on Henck to excel, and he does so spectacularly well here. The disc includes the two sets entitled Two Pieces for Piano, the piano version of The Seasons, Metamorphosis, In a Landscape, Ophelia, and the fragmentary Quest. The pieces date from 1935 to 1948, the same range covered by pianist Jeanne Kirstein in her pioneering 1967 survey of Cage's piano music for CBS Masterworks.
John Cage - The Complete John Cage Edition - Volume 23: The Works for Violin 4 (2001)

John Cage - The Complete John Cage Edition - Volume 23: The Works for Violin 4 (2001)
EAC RIP | APE + CUE + LOG | COVER + BOOK | RAR FILES (3% recovery) | 216 Mb
Classical | Mode 100