![]() ![]() Cage talks about structure in the piece and why it’s important. Note the structure of this piece as described at the beginning. The image, below right, is from the first page of the lecture on nothing (Source: Internet Archive). Lecture on NothingĪccording to the MOMA site, when the White Paintings were shown at the Stable Gallery in 1953, John Cage wrote a statement that said, in part, “To whom: no subject, no image, no taste, no object, no beauty, no message, no talent, no technique, no why, no idea, no intention, no art, no object, no feeling, no black, no white, no and.” In other words, nothing. Read: When John Cage met Robert Rauschenburg and How to Look at a Rauschenberg Painting. These are canvases of white, which change constantly depending on the light and shadow in the room. It’s said that this piece came about after Cage met the artist Robert Rauschenberg, known for his White Paintings ( MOMA), among many others. Instead, the piece composes itself anew every time through the ambient sounds in the room. ![]() It’s a composition where a musician sits at a piano for four minutes and 33 seconds without playing anything on the piano. His most well known musical piece is called 4’33. The artist/musician John Cage wrote two provocative pieces for his book, Silence – Lecture on Nothing and Lecture on Something. An artist needs to be keenly aware of both. In the art world, this is called figure and ground or form and space. What nonsense is this? And, why write about something and nothing? Well, when it comes to perceptual awareness, there is always something and nothing, yet we tend to focus our attention on the somethings. Then I began to write, creating something out of nothing. And, if Bruce Lee is right, what we consider nothing has a lot of power. How does something intangible hold the real power of the universe? Bruce Lee describes it as the seed of the tangible, similar to how John Cage describes nothing and something in his lectures. Examples might be ideas, emotions, love, shared experience, space. Intangible – something that cannot be touched or grasped it doesn’t have physical presence. It is living void because all forms come out of it, and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.“ ~ Bruce Lee via Brain Pickings He is a violinist in the Kreutzer Quartet and has an avid interest in the application of new music to pedagogy, for which he was awarded his doctorate, promoting artistic creativity to a wider audience.“The intangible represents the real power of the universe. His music has been released and performed throughout Europe, America and Japan by leading contemporary music specialists. He studied at Michigan State University and the Royal College of Music. Mihailo Trandafilovski is a Macedonian-born composer, violinist and educator. He is the Viotti Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music. Peter is the founder and violinist of the Kreutzer Quartet and the musical director of Longbow. He has curated projects for the National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the V&A, Tate St Ives and Kunsthallen Bergen, among others. He is the dedicatee of over 400 works for violin by a wide variety of composers and has recorded over 70 CDs. Peter Sheppard Skærved has had an international career which includes projects in Europe, Asia and the USA. In recognition of her contribution to British cultural life, she was nominated for a Barbados Golden Jubilee Award. London-born with Barbadian heritage, her most recent publication Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer Goings-On, has been described as 'subversive, radical, and surprisingly panoramic'. Listen to the recording:ĭorothea Smartt is an internationally respected poet and live artist. The event is introduced by Gramophone Award-winning conductor Richard Bernas. At the same time Cage’s seminal text Lecture on Nothing will be performed by poet Dorothea Smartt. Its sounds derived from star charts, the score was written for Merce Cunningham’s dance Aeon (1961), for which Rauschenberg designed the costumes and sets. In the spirit of their unique collaboration, this evening sees violinists Peter Sheppard Skærved and Mihailo Trandafilovski play the violin folio Cage dedicated to Rauschenberg from Atlas Eclipticalis. Most famously Rauschenberg’s all-white paintings preceded and influenced Cage’s notorious work, the silent piece 4’33”. Their close creative relationship saw them collaborate on performances at Black Mountain College, and later Rauschenberg designed stage sets for Cage and Merce Cunningham’s dance events. ![]() Robert Rauschenberg first met John Cage in New York in the early 1950s. This event sees the work of John Cage animate the unique setting of this major exhibition of his inspiration and friend, Robert Rauschenberg. ![]()
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