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John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It

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Documentary   Music   TV Movie
📜 Overview: This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His love for mushrooms, his Zen beliefs and use of the I Ching, and basic bio details are all explained intelligently and dynamically. Black Mountain, Buckminster Fuller, Rauschenberg, Duchamp are mentioned. Yoko Ono, John Rockwell, Laurie Anderson, Richard Kostelanetz make appearances. Fascinating performance sequences include Margaret Leng-Tan performing on prepared piano, Merce Cunningham and company, and performances of Credo In Us, Water Music, and Third Construction. Demystifies the man who made music from silence, from all sounds, from life.
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📆 Date Released: 1990-09-18
⌚ Running Time: 55 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 0.0

Beloved Cast

John Cage original image
Self
John Cage
Merce Cunningham original image
Self
Merce Cunningham
Yoko Ono original image
Self
Yoko Ono
Laurie Anderson original image
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Laurie Anderson
Margaret Leng Tan original image
Herself
Margaret Leng Tan
Robert Rauschenberg original image
Himself
Robert Rauschenberg
Patricia Denk Powers original image
Narrator (voice)
Patricia Denk Powers

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