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The number pieces. One⁸

Title
The number pieces. 3 : One⁸ / John Cage.
Author
Cage, John
Publication
New York, NY : Mode, [2004]

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Additional Authors
Bach, Michael, 1958-
Description
1 online resource (1 sound file).
Summary
Take a deep breath, and expect nothing. Such advice might usefully apply before listening to any work by John Cage, but the free-from 45 minutes of One8 positively demand it. There are 53 sections, determined in order but not in duration or dynamic, and to begin with the silences seem longer than the notes. Follow Cage's mantra of 'giving up control to let sounds be sounds', however, and the discontinuities begin to tease, take shape and then delight. They show a composer in his twilight - One8 was written barely more than a year before Cage's death in 1992 - with a Stravinskian potential to reinvent and continually challenge himself and his listeners with an insatiable curiosity about sound and music. Many sections demand chords and harmonies which would have to be spread with a conventional cello bow. Enter Michael Bach, inventor, player and promoter of the curved Bach bow, and dedicatee of the work. The vast range of dynamics, attacks and tone colours produced - often simultaneously - bear eloquent witness to Cage's thorough understanding of the curved bow's possibilities and to Bach's devotion to the cause. Certainly he and the German radio engineers have located a fine line between meditative soundscape and ear-tickling challenge that sounds high-definitive, though there is doubtless plenty of scope for interpretation. The only mystery is why this recording had to wait more than a decade to be released as part of Mode's invaluable Cage edition. - Peter Quantrill, The Strad.
Series Statement
  • The complete John Cage edition ; vol. 32
  • Cage, John. Works. Selections (Mode) ; vol. 32.
Uniform Title
One⁸
Alternative Title
  • One⁸
  • One eight
  • 1⁸
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Aleatory music.
  • Streaming audio.
LCCN
US4BP0401205
OCLC
1109957316
Author
Cage, John, composer.
Title
The number pieces. 3 : One⁸ / John Cage.
Publisher
New York, NY : Mode, [2004]
Playing Time
004335
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Series
The complete John Cage edition ; vol. 32
Cage, John. Works. Selections (Mode) ; vol. 32.
Performer
Michael Bach, violoncello (with Bach bow).
Event
Recorded 1994 June 30 Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, SWR Baden-Baden, Germany.
Source of description
Hard copy version record.
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Added Author
Bach, Michael, 1958- instrumentalist.
Other Form:
Source record: Cage, John. One⁸. Number pieces. 3. New York, NY : Mode, ℗2004 (OCoLC)57525832
Other Standard Identifier
US4BP0401205
Publisher No.
MOD-CD-141 Mode Records
Branch Call Number
eNYPL Music
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