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John Cage Talks of His Work and Aesthetic (1969)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), £95.00

Conversation between avant garde composer John Cage and Jack Kroll, senior arts editor at Newsweek magazine. Cage was a composer and a philosopher of aesthetics, whose revolutionary definitions of music...

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Misinformation

Date

9 Jun 2015, 09:24

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Misinformation. 2010 [1970–1987]. GB. DVD. 101 minutes. BFI DVD. Price: £14.99 About the reviewer:  Professor Martin Iddon is Head of School and Professor of Music and Aesthetics at the University of...

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John Cage (1984)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Documentary on the avant-garde composer John Cage. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.

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Four American Composers: John Cage, Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass (1984)

aka: 4 American Composers

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 220 minutes), £32.92

A series of four programmes of performances by ‘avant-garde’ musicians from New York: John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass and Robert Ashley. The programmes are preceeded and followed by short...

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Chaotic Universe, The (1992 Video)

Subject

Philosophy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION IN UK, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

Discussion of a way of thinking about the nature and organisation of all living systems, of the creativity inherent in chaos, and of a non-linear world that contains multiple views. John Cage discusses his...

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Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Robert Rauschenberg Collaborations: Suite for Five, Summerspace, Interscape (2010)

Director

Charles Atlas

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 97 minutes), £40.99

In 1954, Robert Rauschenberg became the Resident Designer to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, a position he held for ten years. During that time these friends and collaborators, along with the musician...

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Listen (2005)

Subject

Music; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 140 minutes), 19.99

In the spirit of John Cage’s historic and revolutionary composition 4’33’'--which challenges the boundaries of traditional music through four and a half minutes of intentional silence--Miroslav...

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Robert Ashley (1984 Film)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Uses material from various performances of the stage version of Ashley’s ‘made for television’ opera ‘Perfect Lives (Private Parts)'. The stage version was a collaboration between Ashley, the...

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Poetry in Motion (1982)

Director

Ron Mann

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), £17.86 (Amazon)

An unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry’s ancient oral tradition and an energetic...

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Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946 Video)

Director

Hans Richter

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

Painter, film theorist and film-maker Hans Richter, one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde, assembled some of the century’s liveliest artists as co-creators for this film,...

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