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A 639-year-long John Cage organ performance strikes a new chord in Germany

The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.

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‘There’s a certain madness to it’ … fans await new chord in John Cage gig with 616 years left to run

Admirers of the avant-garde composer’s work hope the concert in the German church will stay the course – all the way to 2640

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"I was standing crying at the synthesizer, so I pulled out a card and it said 'just carry on'. I did and created something I still like today": How Brian Eno's mysterious Oblique Strategies could help your music production and your life

"Use fewer notes", "Be dirty" or "Mute and continue": which Strategy will you use in the studio today?

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How the hunt for a lost Moog in India unearthed a groundbreaking collection of '60s electronic music that was miles ahead of its time: "It blew everything wide open"

Artist and author Paul Purgas shines a light on an archive of visionary sounds recorded during a radical period of experimentation at Ahmedabad's National Institute of Design

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“I really wanted to be accepted in that purist world of punk and hardcore. You plug your guitar in and boom! Instead we had 10 guitars... all broken and rejigged”: Thurston Moore on Sonic Youth, taming feedback and musical epiphanies

Reflecting on a life of warping electric guitar norms, Moore discusses punk's duality, guitar technique, environmental sound, and taking his sound beyond the boundary

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Letter(s) to Erik Satie album review – a gem of a collection

Beautifully planned and presented sequence of miniatures pays homage to Satie and to John Cage who was heavily influenced by the late French composer

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‘It became a nightmare’: artist Christian Marclay on global smash The Clock – and his new work Doors

His 24-hour clock made of movie clips was a sensation. Can Doors, a montage of screen stars entering and leaving rooms, beat it? The artist reveals how lockdown and our new age of anxiety pushed him to finish it

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From Duchamp to AI: the transformation of authorship in art

The 19th century concept of authorship revolved around the romantic view of the artist as a lone genius. In this model, every stroke of the brush, every note played and every word written was the product of a singular creative mind, bearing the unique imprint of its creator.

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Peter Dickinson obituary

Composer, academic and broadcaster who focused on American experimental music and pioneered the teaching of jazz in Britain

The Guardian - UK

New research suggests that silence is something you can actually hear

Team at Johns Hopkins University wanted to address the debate of whether people can hear more than sounds, which they say “has puzzled philosophers for centuries”

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Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV review – the adventures of a multimedia maverick

Documentary shows the awe-inspiring vocation of this avant garde disruptor, who foresaw the internet and meme culture’s importance in the 1970s

The Guardian - UK

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Japan’s master of electronic music

A prolific solo artist and composer who worked with musicians from Bowie to Madonna, Sakamoto refused to stay within the confines of one genre

The Independent UK

Ryuichi Sakamoto obituary

Japanese composer and electronic music pioneer behind the soundtrack for the 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

The Guardian - UK

From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

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Sundance 2023: Documentaries and Short Films of Note

In the last of a four-part survey, our film critic CJ Sheu reviews documentaries and short films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

The Guardian - UK

‘Humanity hit a brick wall’: John Cale on the Velvets, Nico, Covid and a gun-ridden world gone bad

As he hits 80 and releases a softly raging album inspired by the ugliness of the pandemic years, the ever restless and eternally avant-garde musician unburdens himself

The Guardian - UK

Ghost Music by An Yu review – the meaning of silence

A former pianist is haunted by the life she could have led in this intriguing exploration of music, self-knowledge and marital discord

The Guardian - UK

Tom Phillips obituary

Painter, printmaker and collagist known for his extraordinary breadth of involvement in the arts

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OzAsia Festival puts Asian Australian artists centrestage while plotting a post-COVID increase in international programming

Maria Tran struggled to break through in white- and male-dominated movie industries, so she's making her own. Hers is one of many kickarse stories in this year's OzAsia Festival.

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Toy piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan: ‘I played Beethoven in Beethoven’s house – eat that, Schroeder’

The 76-year-old has played everything from toys to teapots to become a famed avant-garde musician. Ahead of Australian shows she speaks about her toy piano collection, OCD and believing in fate

The Guardian - UK

Cerith Wyn Evans review – lose yourself in broken windscreens and neon scribbles

The longer you stay the more there is to experience in this giddying, transporting exhibition that comes with a dash of danger

The Independent UK

Japanese avant-garde pioneer composer Ichiyanagi dies at 89

Avant-garde pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead Japan’s advances in experimental modern music, has died

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: At 80, Peter Greenaway remains film’s reigning musical maverick

LOS ANGELES — It can be argued that Peter Greenaway is today’s feature filmmaker with the most wide-ranging musical imagination. His best-known films — “The Draughtman’s Contract,” “A Zed & Two Noughts,” “Drowning by Numbers,” “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover” and “Prospero’s Books” — were celebrated…

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Dream of Gerontius, Bach’s Mass in B minor and Nathan Laube at the Proms

Jamie Barton and Allan Clayton lead a dream Gerontius in a week of choral epics at the Proms. Elsewhere, deep listening and silence…

The Guardian - UK

From Signal to Decay Volume 1 – review: An exhibition that sings to itself

Using ambient, dubby noise as well as drawings and video art, Mathison’s engrossing show ‘plays’ the echoing spaces of the gallery

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