MetaFilter posts tagged with cage

Notch tubing without a notcher.

Mitheral — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:19:34 -0800

Cope pipe without a jig. Enter a few parameters and get a pdf that will give you a printable pattern that will allow you to notch tubing for welding or brazing to another pipe.

Interesting American Music

LooseFilter — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:15:30 -0800

Friday Listening Fun! The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts sponsors some excellent concerts featuring members of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. They are kind enough to put recordings of some--with commentary--online, as well: Steve Reich, Different Trains and George Crumb, Black Angels; or how about John Cage, Credo in US. Some feature only (really interesting) commentary: Stravinsky, Berio, and Boulez Hindemith and Britten Or, you could head over to Art of the States, a great place to hear contemporary American concert music. You can listen to Michael Morgan conduct John Adams' Chamber Symphony at Tanglewood, hear William Albright's delightfully askew Four Fancies, performed on harpsichord by the composer. Or try some Ives, or a cool percussion piece by David Lang, or some fascinating and sometimes wild transcriptions of Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano....or maybe do some deep listening with Pauline Oliveros playing just-intonation accordion, or even go Drumming with Steve Reich. (previously on MeFi here) Or, head over to the fantastic American Mavericks website, where you can play Harry Partch's instruments, or check out their Listening Room for archived episodes of The Composer's Voice featuring composers like John Adams, John Corigliano, and Michael Daugherty, or listen to interviews with Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Michael Torke, and whole bunch of other very interesting people. (previously here and here)

"There has never really been any modernity, never any real progress, never any assured liberation."

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:46:18 -0800

Meditations on: the poetic and profane; on silence; death; catastrophe; Cage — and yet more strangeness and beauty from David Ralph Lichtensteiger's travels within the world of 20th C. avant garde music and postmodernism.

20th C. avant-garde films

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:56:18 -0800

A video broadcast of György Ligeti's Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes (AVI, French), with helpful background on the controversial piece located here. For those who know French, you may also be interested in 1993's György Ligeti: Portrait, A Documentary by Michel Follin, showing Ligeti as "the displaced cosmopolitan", through the metaphor of train ride through the European countryside. These and many other avant-garde films can be found at Ubuweb, including features with William Burroughs, a recent "performance" of Cage's 4'33", and Varése and Le Corbusier's 1958 World Fair collaboration Poême électronique, a 400-speaker soundspace installation predating later, more experimental feedback pieces.

Who's been a bad boy?

XQUZYPHYR — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 06:39:28 -0800

Baby Cage. Infant Confinement Specialists since 2001.

Sam Hsieh's Cage Piece, Revisited

pedantic — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:52:26 -0800

1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate)