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John Cage, The Barton Workshop

Fourteen-Seven-Ten-Three²

Label: Megadisc Classics

Format: CD

Genre: Sound Art

In stock

€155.00
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Extremely rare 2006 CD of monumental and radical John Cage late compositions by the Barton Workshop.

** condition: M/M ** Barton Workshop director James Fulkerson puts it well: “When I look at the Number Pieces’ scores themselves, I see them as a form of conceptual art – instructions which define an attitude.” Traditionally feats of provocation have been noisy and ugly affairs, but Cage’s late “Number Pieces” transform the act of subversion into a thing of majorly profound beauty. Musicians are given material framed by “time brackets” that indicate how long each sound lasts. The different instrumental parts aren’t meant to coordinate, and the random overlapping of colliding time brackets creates a texture where harmony without function and over-exposed instrumental timbre fuse with clandestine intent.

Details
Cat. number: MDC 7801
Year: 2006
Notes:
1: for piano, flute/piccolo, bass flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, 2 percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass 2: for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, volin, viola, cello 3: for flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello 4: for 3 percussionists