RETHINKING JOHN CAGE
The composer and philosopher that is John Cage really is a story about sound and how we interpret it. He said, “In the stillness of the universe we hear the ‘sound’.”He is urging us to “explore, not explain”, urging us to not fall into old habits, and reminds us over and over that it’s neither silence or sound..it’s ALL music. All this and more is uniquely explored in “Everybody’s Cage” that connects the music and philosophy that is John Cage. Sandra Trostel, director of “Everybody’s Cage” gives us some background.
When John Cage (1912-1992), one of the most influential composers of New York’s 20th century avant-garde, was asked to summarize himself in a nutshell, he said humorously: „Get out of whatever cage you‘re in.“ Cage scrutinized the underlying principles of the arrangements in music and society systematically. He developed musical forms free of hierarchy and traditional relations on the base of social and philosophical questions – on education, work, government, the process of inner development, on the freedom of movement of a society and its individuals. His compositions are independent from judgmental structures and the individual taste of the composer.
