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John Cage
Cage: Bird Cage
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Bird Cage, for 12 tapes & 1 performer in a space with freely moving people and birds: Part 1
2. Bird Cage, for 12 tapes & 1 performer in a space with freely moving people and birds: Part 2
3. Bird Cage, for 12 tapes & 1 performer in a space with freely moving people and birds: Part 3
4. Bird Cage, for 12 tapes & 1 performer in a space with freely moving people and birds: Part 4
5. Bird Cage, for 12 tapes & 1 performer in a space with freely moving people and birds: Part 5
6. Bird Cage, for 12 tapes & 1 performer in a space with freely moving people and birds: Part 6
7. Bird Cage, for 12 tapes & 1 performer in a space with freely moving people and birds: Part 7
8. Bird Cage, for 12 tapes & 1 performer in a space with freely moving people and birds: Part 8
9. Bird Cage, for 12 tapes & 1 performer in a space with freely moving people and birds: Part 9

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CD Details

All Artists: John Cage
Title: Cage: Bird Cage
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMF Media
Release Date: 4/25/2000
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical
Styles: Electronica, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Electronic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 653727281926

Synopsis

Product Description

In 1972, John Cage, accompanied by a film crew from Germany, went to upstate New York to work for 3 days in the State University of New York at Albany's electronic music studio. He carried with him three piles of tapes: (1) sounds of birds in aviaries that he had made in the prior two weeks, (2) recordings of himself singing his 'Mureau', and (3) ambient sounds. While listening to tapes of himself singing Mureau, he commented, "It makes the birds seem less ridiculous." The result was 'Birdcage', a complex, exuberant, and joyful fabric of juxtapositions of all of the sounds, to be played back in a space in which, as Cage put it, people were free to move and birds to fly.