John Cage Composing, Computing, and Curating

This study reassesses Cage's multifaceted practice from an integrated transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions.

List of contents

Introduction: Cage and the Posthuman 1. Repetition and Difference: Erik Satie 2. Chance Measures: After Duchamp 3. Text Music 4. Technologies of Indeterminacy 5. Museum as Instrument Afterward: Cage and the Contemporary

About the author

Sandra Skurvida teaches in the History of Art Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), State University of New York (SUNY).

Summary

This study reassesses Cage’s multifaceted practice from an integrated transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual, lingual, and museal compositions.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Skurvida, Sandra (Fit-Suny Skurvida
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032717470
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3271747-0
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, ART / History / General, ART / Museum Studies, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music