Records Ruin the Landscape John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording - David Grubbs Melbourne School for Discontent Chira resembled a farmer tilling

Chira resembled a farmer tilling his field

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Silver Press

Auckland University Press

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Records Ruin the Landscape John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording - David Grubbs Melbourne School for Discontent Chira resembled a farmer tillingJohn Cage's disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues that, following Cage, new genres in experimental and avant garde music in the 1960s were particularly ill suited to be represented in the form of a recording. These activities include indeterminate music, long duration minimalism, text scores, happenings, live electronic