August 3rd, 2010 / 10:55 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Evelyn Hampton—
That we
have no ears to hear the
music the spores shot off
from basidia make obliges us
to busy ourselves microphonically.
-John Cage in Indeterminacy, a lecture performance in which Cage recited a series of one-minute stories and anecdotes in no particular order. Cage was a mycologist and many of the stories were about mushrooms. Some of the mushroom stories are collected here.
I came across these a few months ago and was pretty much floored. The mushroom stories link actually seems to use this site, where, I think, the entire series is collected: http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/index.cgi
Here is one of my favorites, about teaching “Oriental music”: http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/s.cgi?76
Here’s another, about two monks: http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/s.cgi?2
I came across these a few months ago and was pretty much floored. The mushroom stories link actually seems to use this site, where, I think, the entire series is collected: http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/index.cgi
Here is one of my favorites, about teaching “Oriental music”: http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/s.cgi?76
Here’s another, about two monks: http://www.lcdf.org/indeterminacy/s.cgi?2