| Part of Series | Thoughts in Sound |
| Length | 05:00 |
| Licensor | Echoes |
| Producer(s) | John Diliberto |
| Formats | Limited Series, Soft Feature, Special |
| Topics | Art, Music |
| Produced | January 3, 2008 |
| Added to PRX | January 7, 2008 |
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A conceptualist of sound contemplates the meaning of music
http://www.echoes.org/ThoughtsinSound.html
Producer and host: John Diliberto
Executive Producer: Kimberly Haas
Funding: PRX Reversioning Project, The Grammy Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
English
Most artists are content to play the notes, but there's a handful of composers and musicians who work at the level of sound itself, turning meaning, finding nuance, charting new hitherto unheard directions in music through a contemplation of the meaning of sound itself. In a series of five non-narrative features, four composers and one music movement grapple with sound from its spiritual to its theoretical dimensions. The artists include John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Keith Jarrett and in a Minimalist Meditation, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, LaMonte Young and John Adams.
In episode #2, we hear from the late John Cage. Few contemporary composers had the influence of John Cage. From experimental music to minimalism, Brian Eno to George Winston, echoes of John Cage continue to resound to this day, more than 6 decades after his "Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano" were first published. John Cage was a conceptualist of sound who turned even silence into music as he did with his famous piece, 4 minutes and 33 seconds. John cage died from a stroke in August of 1992. But we hear his thoughts in sound from a 1987 interview.
