John Cage on Silence
I've just added John Cage's composition 4'33" to the Crisis Chronicles Online Library. Click here to hear it.
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Some Cage books I read in prison and found quite liberating include:
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John Burroughs,
a.k.a. Jesus Crisis, is a pacifist, poet, playwright, musician, composer, bibliophile, and seeker in Elyria, Ohio.
Co-founder (with Dianne Borsenik) of the monthly Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza and the annual winter wordfest known as Snoetry, John is also the founding editor and publisher for Crisis Chronicles Press and a regular contributor to the Cleveland Poetics and Ohio Poetry Association blogs. Since 2011 he has served as the OPA's webmaster pro tem.
John founded a loose association called Poets of Lorain County, under whose auspices he's hosted regular open mic and featured poet events at the Avon Lake Public Library and the Lorain Arts Council's 737 Gallery, as well as the PoetryElyria series at Jim's Coffeehouse and Diner, the Scott M. Duncan Photography studio and other venues in his hometown.
John's work has appeared on stages in four states, as well as in numerous journals, and he is the author of six poetry chapbooks, including:
Water Works (Recycled Karma Press, 2012)
Electric Company (Writing Knights Press, 2011)
6/9: Improvisations in Dependence by Jesus Crisis (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2009)
Identity Crises by Doug Manson, JC and Bree (Green Panda Press, 2009)
Bloggerel by JC (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2008)
Two broadsides featuring his work, For Change Is and Low Kay Shun, are available from NightBallet Press.
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The Tao of Jesus Crisis: John Cage on Silence
I've just added John Cage's composition 4'33" to the Crisis Chronicles Online Library. Click here to hear it.
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Some Cage books I read in prison and found quite liberating include:
Ironic that none of the You Tube videos embedded in my site or library are working at the moment... they're nothing but white boxes. I wonder if silence looks like a white box.
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They seem to be working again.
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i saw john cage read from his writings down at oberlin college back in the early 1980s.
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I was ignorant of Cage's existence in the early 1980s - and never really explored his thoughts and work until prison in the mid 1990's. Thank goodness for inter-library loan then and You Tube now.
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What is the meaning of sound? I only see Cage's mouth moving on the video and cannot understand what he is saying because even with the volume up I just get an occasional word or two.
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Interesting....
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finally found time to listen to the video - cage looks serene and happy and his words are genius.
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They are working now.. but I'm too tired to do anything.. I'll be back tomorrow. Glad things are operational here at crisis blog kingdom again.
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as, usual John Cage is elegant
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