Giovedi 29 su Nova-Sole24ore si parla della riedizione del Treno di John Cage che trent'anni fa con il suo happening sonoro segnò una generazione e anticipò la multimedialità. L'evento, diretto oggi musicalmente da Alvin Curran con un omaggio sui funghi amati e studiati, si svolgerà tra Bologna a Porretta, in treno. Nel catalogo c'è un testo su Il teatro dell'ascolto 2.0.
un po' di storia:
John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.
"At the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at New York City's New School. Eight years beyond 4:33, he was (as our smoking MC informs us) the most controversial figure in the musical world at that time. His first performance on national television was originally scored to include five radios, but a union dispute on the CBS set prevented any of the radios from being plugged in to the wall. Cage gleefully smacks and tosses the radios instead of turning them on and off.
While treating Cage as something of a freak, the show also treats him fairly reverentially, cancelling the regular game show format to allow Cage the chance to perform his entire piece. "
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