KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ John Cage at Crown Point Press, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Spoken Word

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1982.04.18.A

Program Length

104 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

| broadcast
| 1982-04-18 | created

Description

A reading at Crown Point Press at the opening of John Cage's exhibit of etchings on April 18, 1982. This program includes an interview with Crown Point Press founder Kathan Brown, an excerpt from Cage's “Indeterminacy”, as well as live readings from Cage’s “Composition in Retrospect”, and “Diary: How to Improve the World, You'll Only Make Matters Worse” (Continued 1972 - 1982).

Genres

Literature
Modern Art

Musical Selections

Indeterminacy [excerpts] / John Cage & David Tudor

Subjects

Literature, Experimental
Art, Modern
Etching
Tales
Musique concrète
Music, concrete
Aleatory music
Chance operations
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Poetry
Cut-ups (Literary form)

Related place

Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Crown Point Press (Oakland, Calif.)
Amirkhanian, Charles
Brown, Kathan
Cage, John
Tudor, David, 1926-1996