A Year With John Cage - How To Get Out Of The Cage (Documentary, 2012)
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- With German and French subtitles. This compelling documentary, seen through the lens of award-winning filmmaker Frank Scheffer, presents an intimate portrait of one of the 20th century's most important composers and creative minds at work.
From 1982 to 1992, Frank Scheffer worked with John Cage on numerous occasions, which resulted in a unique archive of historical audio-visual material. Based on this unique archive, including interviews, musical performances, and images of different locations related to Cage's life and work - filmed in 16mm - filmmaker Frank Scheffer created "How to get out of the Cage - A Year with John Cage".
In all of Scheffer’s works related to John Cage he uses the old Chinese method of chance operations based on the I Ching - as often used by John Cage himself in his compositions. For this new documentary he decided for another approach: Instead of using chance operations he edited the film in the usual way that is based on choice. “I wanted the documentary to be informative and appealing to a bigger audience”, so Scheffer.
The structure of this documentary is based on different chapters:
2:10 One - Nachtcagetag
24 Hours of the Music of John Cage
Cologne, Germany
February 14-15, 1987
11:03 Two - Roaratorio
An Irish circus based on Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
July 18, 1987
20:32 Three - Los Angeles Festival
Los Angeles, CA, USA
September 3-27, 1987
36:41 Four - New York, NY, USA
October 3-7, 1987
47:04 Five - Europera’s I & II
Frankfurt, Germany
November 12 & December 11, 1987
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"The famous artist Marina Abramovic introduced me to John Cage. She thought it would be worthwhile for me to get in tough with him and right she was! In June 1982, I did an hour-long interview with him without knowing how influential he was. He loved the fact that it was an interview without preconceptions. It dramatically changed my way of thinking. He had opened my mind!"
- Frank Scheffer
John Cage's "sound moments" and his musical philosophy have had a big personal impact on how I view the world. One of the greatest composers in the history of humankind.
I enjoy telling people my favourite composition ever is 4'33 without giving them any premise as to what to expect. The idea is to tell people they need to sit in silence, and absorb the sounds of whatever happens within that silence. Has inspired my writing and view of music and life further.
I was born five years after his passing, but this man has impacted my life so much. He had an amazing mind for music and I swear, every sentence he says is full of wisdom. I get happily teary eyed when I watch these documentaries.
I was born in 1995 TT_TT. His music helps me when I go into psychotic states something that even my favorite songs by other artists and composers can't. His sonatas and interludes are able to ground me back to earth and almost reprogram my brain. Also his voice is so soothing.
John Cage is a master music philosopher, Zen teacher and so to the point. When I met him he was reading from a book he wrote. That was the music. His voice his words his mind.
Because, everything is vibration.
I knew John Cage at my fourteen, when i was searching for experimental ambient music in TH-cam and then i found 4'33 - that's blowing my mind when I was heard it for the first time, now I'm 26. What a enlightenment experience I feels.
John Cage's lamentation thoughts impact me on everything in my life, and this day I'll ran into noisecians project for having fun and feed my inner-ear-soul from farming fields collage sounds in the earth.
Big Thanks John, see you in another dimension.
Peace.
What a charming, happy man. I love him.
" It's not good manners to discuss the point of the question."
Cage knew how to keep up with good manners! Thankful for this video.
This is so great! Thanks for sharing!
I just purchased a copy of High Performance magazine signed by Cage. He is a major hero of mine!
Though, that jab at Marxism at the end was out of place, and inappropriate. Noone can be perfect, of course.
Beautiful. Thank you
We all need a little more Cage in our lives.
Verlo a John sonreír es maravilloso.
Uno de mis héroes sonoros y fuente de inspiración.
GRACIAS
He was a friendly soul.
Thank you
The Europera section is so wonderful to see. Lovely film!
Thanks.
a dude searching for true randomness in a reality that is quantifiable
This man was truly remarkable!
lol the costumed cacophony at the end reminds me of ST:NG when they met Q
Hi, can anyone help me find out more about takayasu kazuki (sp) who Cage mentions @ 30:00 - 30:40? Thank you in advance
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takehisa_Kosugi
@@kanon0853 thank you!
Does someone know what song is being played at the beginning of the documentary?
satie's musique d'ameublement
Portuguese Subtitles please!!
What is the name of the music starting at 9:52?
satie's musique d'ameublement
♥
HELP...at minute 16 he mentions some authors...can anyone understand the names of the authors??? Please send them to me as a reply..cheers!
The author asked to make a list is "Beckett," probably Samuel Beckett. He then says that "Finnegan's Wake" isn't on the list. In fact [James] Joyce isn't on the list, because he is in a class by himself. Is the the spot you're talking about?
Would anyone happen to know the piece playing at 29:00?
I think is some part or rendition of Thirteen Harmonies. When i was younger I rejected Cage, but this piece made my glad dont know why
No it isnt, dont really know what is that piece
Since 2017 I've spent a bit of time trying to figure this out myself... I wonder about it again every six, nine, twelve months.
It is almost certainly one of Cage's Number Pieces, where the number/title indicates the number of players/instruments.
The remarkably beautiful one-minute excerpt seems to include flute, oboe (maybe clarinet??), horn (maybe trombone??), violin (one or two), viola, cello... Tell me if you hear anything different.
According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Pieces#Six_to_Twenty
the only number pieces with similar instrumentation are:
SEVEN for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello
TEN for flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola and cello
THIRTEEN for flute, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, bassoon, trumpet in C, tenor trombone, tuba, two percussionists, 2 violins, viola and cello
FOURTEEN for flute/piccolo, bass flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, two percussionists, bowed piano, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass
It's feasible we'd hear no percussion or piano in a one-minute excerpt, but to not hear 5-7 of the players...? Not sure about that.
So-what recordings of these would have existed when the film was made?
SEVEN is from May 1988, TEN from October-November, 1991, THIRTEEN from May 1992, FOURTEEN from 1990.
web.archive.org/web/20070731140134/www.johncage.info/workscage/seven.html
web.archive.org/web/20080416154330/www.johncage.info/workscage/ten.html
web.archive.org/web/20070823190237/www.johncage.info/workscage/thirteen.html
web.archive.org/web/20080416153213/www.johncage.info/workscage/fourteen.html
There's also SIXTEEN which was scrapped and never published, but perhaps the filmmaker had access to an unreleased (rehearsal?) recording of it?
web.archive.org/web/20070731135047/www.johncage.info/workscage/sixteen.html
The sound quality and mixing sounds very similar to the two IVES ENSEMBLE albums with SEVEN, TEN, and FOURTEEN, but I haven't found this particular moment anywhere. It also sounds similar to ENSEMBLE 13's two recordings of THIRTEEN, but again I couldn't find this moment... These recordings were released around the time of composition, which was also when much of this documentary was being filmed. Later, in 2006, THE BARTON WORKSHOP released an album including Fourteen, Seven, Ten, Three²... So, that was also out before the film was released in 2012.
Anyone else have any other ideas?
in death he is light years ahead
Min 4:09: „Ich mache eine Musik, für die ich nicht nur Komponist bin, sondern auch (selbst) Zuhörer.“ Untertitel sind an dieser Stelle nicht genau ;)
4:04
Cage's music isn't as bad as it sounds.
HAHAHAHAHA
11:05
48:20
22:40
Nobody touches Cage when it comes to innovation . Nobody .
I believe John hated self interpretation of sound. Not that it doesn't have meaning but to avoid inherit ascribed meaning as a composer.
Numbers
Hay may name is welisson im brasil
Far out dude
Why would you want to quiet the mind? The mind is the most amazing thing there is. Might as well use it for fireworks.
he is saying it: "to make it susceptable to devine influences".
For someone like me who is susceptible to extreme feelings of being overwhelmed and anxiety, I find Cage’s philosophy to be not just fascinating but also incredibly valuable. Quietening the mind is something that’s necessary for me to retain control of my emotions and mental well-being, especially during the stress-provoked outbursts that I’m prone to having, so I have to disagree with your sentiment.
New York = Ego
Why recreate total randomness when the world is already full of it.
Maybe then the world won't seem so random.
hes not recreating randomness, hes allowing the randomness to be expressed through his work
the world is actually full of people imposing their will on others. the use of chance procedure in composition is a way to direct the attention towards the sounding phenomena, instead of the composer's intention.
I don't have an issue with John Cage but this is a terrible documentary.