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John Cage on a game show

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Author: papergoose on April 30 2007

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--> A (slow loading) video of John Cage performing on a 1960 game show, using various random things and a piano.

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"At the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at New York City's New School. Eight years beyond 4:33, he was (as our smoking MC informs us) the most controversial figure in the musical world at that time. His first performance on national television was originally scored to include five radios, but a union dispute on the CBS set prevented any of the radios from being plugged in to the wall. Cage gleefully smacks and tosses the radios instead of turning them on and off.

While treating Cage as something of a freak, the show also treats him fairly reverentially, cancelling the regular game show format to allow Cage the chance to perform his entire piece."

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05/02/07 + Bobby27

That performance really sucked. I really like cage outside of his shock value crap. Thanks for posting.

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05/03/07 + craque

I'm pretty sure the Italian game show where Cage studied up on mycology and went all the way to win like $5000 (or something similar) happened before he met Peggy G., when he was living in Europe and trying to network there, and is where he first encountered the folks of Darmstadt.

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10/18/07 + appollo51

Cage is a hack

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