A Celebration of John Cage - Toronto

Soundstreams gives an early kick start to the celebrations for the 100th birthday of American composer John Cage at the Gardiner Museum during ScotiaBank's Nuit Blanche, with a fantastic night of music, dance, readings, visual art, and more!

Saturday, October 1 at 7:00pm - October 2 at 7:00am

The Gardiner Museum

111 Queen's Park

Toronto, ON

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204282269637606

http://www.blogto.com/events/44751

A Year from Monday. 365 Days Cage at Akademie der Künste, Berlin

On the occasion of John Cage’s 100th birthday in 2012, the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin honors the innovative composer with an interdisciplinary art project. A Year from Monday. 365 Days Cage presents artistic comments on Cage that start on Cage’s 99th birthday (5.9.2011) and end on his 100th birthday in 2012. Artists, writers, filmmakers, choreographers, musicians and composers, including many members of the Academy of Arts are devoting themselves to the work of John Cage.

A Year from Monday. 365 Days Cage at Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Opening reception, September 6, 2011. Video by Astrid Gleichmann.

http://vernissage.tv/blog/2011/09/14/a-year-from-monday-365-days-cage-at-akademie-der-kunste-berlin/

FOUR WALLS (1944) by John Cage, MARGARET LENG TAN (piano, voice)

As part of the series curated by Mode Records at The Stone this September:

MARGARET LENG TAN (piano, voice)
FOUR WALLS (1944) by John Cage
 An hour-long exploration of the disturbed mind. A rare opportunity to hear Cage’s uncanny antecedent to Minimalism and harbinger of 4’33”.

Sunday, September 25
8 pm
The Stone
corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street
New York City
$10 (no reservations)
http://www.thestonenyc.com <http://www.thestonenyc.com/> 

John Cage Memorial Random Composer Award

The John Cage Memorial Random Composer Award was inaugurated in 2011 in commemoration of John Cage's 99th birthday.  The JCMRCA will be awarded to a single composer each year, whose biography and music will appear on their web page for one year.

ALL composers are encouraged to enter - ALL those who frame, manipulate, capture, appreciate, organize, and hear sounds as music.  It is the intention of this competition to recognize a composer of any age, gender, race, nationality, sexuality, style, influence, education or creed.  However, it must be a real person. Donald Duck may not win this competition.  If the winner is found to be sufficiently inhuman, a second winner will be selected.

One composer will be selected from the entries using Random.org's true random numbers culled from atmospheric noise. No email addresses or information entered in the competition will be shared with any individuals or corporations.  There is no financial gain to either the competition or the entrants.  The winner will be asked to provide sound clips of their work for the website, which will be displayed for a year until the next competition.

http://randomcomposeraward.weebly.com/

Every Day is a Good Day - Hayward Gallery

Excellent exhibition of visual works  by John Cage on display at the Hayward Gallery.

http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/modern-classical/tickets/john-cage-every-day-is-a-good-day-1000158

Ear to Earth Soundscape Field Recording workshop - 100 x John

Ear to the Earth invites you to participate in one of our free New York Soundscape field recording workshops. For two days, participants will learn about listening to their environment, identifying soundmarks, and the art of field recording. Workshop participants will then experience field recording first hand as they mine their soundscape for unique sounds and record them for themselves.

The recordings gathered during the Brooklyn workshop will be featured during a special performance of Share, a collaborative performance environment at Issue Project Room. Recordings gathered during the Staten Island workshop will be woven into a performance at Snug Harbor by contemporary pianist Joe Kubera,  as part of the Ear to the Earth Festival.

Recordings from both workshops will be further used as part of a final work featuring sounds from all boroughs, called 100 x John. In honor of John Cage’s 100th birthday, this piece will be modeled on his unique compositional techniques—using indeterminacy and New York sounds to create a true New York Soundscape.

http://newsroom.free103point9.org/?p=802

The 99th anniversary of John Cage’s birthday celebration - Lubin, Poland

To celebrate the 99th anniversary of John Cage’s birthday on September 5, an event called „re:Broadcast“ will take place in Lublin at Litewski Square. The broadcast by Polish Radio 2 of John Cage’s piece „Aria (Fontana Mix)“ will be „re-broadcast“ into the city’s main public space via radio receivers brought by Lublin’s residents.


http://kultura.lublin.eu/wiadomosci,1,7365,The_99th_anniversary_of_John_Cage%E2%80%99s_birthday.html?locale=en_GB&full=1

John Cage's Circle of Influence, October 7-9th, Black Mountain College

John Cage, foraging for mushrooms in Stony Point, New York (1958)

Photographer: Unknown

Courtesy John Cage Trust

John Cage in Japan (1962)

Photographer: Unknown

Courtesy: John Cage Trust

Details have been posted on the Black Mountain College annual Reviewing Black Mountain College conference, this year focusing on John Cage with the title "John Cage's Circle of Influence"

I wish I could attend, but I am on fellowship, which means lots of time and little money.

http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/index.php/bmc-conference/192-bmc-conference-2011-press-release