And speaking of John Cage – do you want to
see a piece about walking written by John Cage?
Well of course you do. It’s from Indeterminacy (and it’s sometimes given
more orthodox layout):
And do you want to to see a picture of the
great man walking? Well, why wouldn’t
you? This is a still from the 2012
documentary Journeys in Sound.
There's a trailer for it here:
I also found
an extraordinary, and not entirely easy to watch, documentary titled Sound?? From 1966 or 67 (scholars seem to differ). It’s about
Cage and Roland Kirk. There’s a lot of
free-blowing from Kirk at Ronnie Scott’s club, and there’s some
electronic
noise from Cage – and the two do kind of come together.
And we do see
them both walking, apparently in London.
Kirk walks along causing some (unnecessary) consternation to the
passersby.
And we see Cage walking in a
children’s playground, somewhere near Spitalfields I think, and finally in an
anechoic chamber.
