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Cage After Cage

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Composer
CAGE, JOHN
Artist
Matthias Kaul
Format
CD
Label
Wergo
Released
Nov 06, 2015
Catalog #
WER73202
UPC
4010228732023

About

Anyone performing John Cage's music cannot avoid silence. In all the works performed in this collection, percussionist Matthias Kaul deals with silence and how it can be realized in the most concrete way. Kaul is not only a percussionist, he is also a composer and therefore equipped for such a task. In Variations I, Cage plays with various forms of silence. The score consists of transparent sheets with dots and lines and the performers generates concrete tones, sounds and "pauses". The playing instructions for Inlets are still more rudimentary; there are three performers, each of whom has four conch shells. The shells are filled with water and turned round and round; then a fire fueled by pine cones begins, and the piece ends when one of the shells blown like a horn. In Child of Tree, the performer must toss coins to determine how many sections to divide the eight minutes into and which instruments to use in which sections. For this major project, Kaul used 90 different instruments and objects altogether.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 cȻomposed Improvisations (version for snare drum) 08:00
    Track
    1
    Title
    cȻomposed Improvisations (version for snare drum)
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Matthias Kaul
  2. 2 Variations I 15:04
    Track
    2
    Title
    Variations I
    Duration
    15:04
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Matthias Kaul
  3. 3 Child of Tree 08:00
    Track
    3
    Title
    Child of Tree
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Matthias Kaul
  4. 4 cȻomposed Improvisations (version for one-sided drum) 08:00
    Track
    4
    Title
    cȻomposed Improvisations (version for one-sided drum)
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Matthias Kaul
  5. 5 Inlets, "Improvisation II" 07:58
    Track
    5
    Title
    Inlets, "Improvisation II"
    Duration
    07:58
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Matthias Kaul
  6. 6 27'10. 554" for a Percussionist 27:10
    Track
    6
    Title
    27'10. 554" for a Percussionist
    Duration
    27:10
    Composer
    John Cage
    Performer
    Matthias Kaul