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Blue with China Ink—Homage to John Cage, 1946
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Robert MotherwellPublished April 2013 Robert Motherwell, Blue with China Ink—Homage to John Cage, 1946. Ink, oil and collage on paper, 40 x 31 in. Collection Richard Brown Baker, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,...
Creating a Circus of Words, Music, and Sound
Creating a Circus of Words, Music, and Sound: From Roaratorio to Owenvarragh Martin Dowling and Úna Monaghan School of Creative Arts Queen’s University of Belfast Introduction This essay documents an artistic collaboration that draws on a variety of sources,...
Volume 11: The Practice and Pedagogy of Writing at Black Mountain College
The published writers of Black Mountain College, particularly the poets, have received much scholarly attention. The central place of writing as a practice of the arts in the college’s curriculum has been explored much less. In this issue our contributors address this theme through a variety of kinds of texts, both written and performed…
Rhythm, Rhymes, and Pleasure
Rhythm, Rhymes, and Pleasure: Mesostics on Ciaran Carson’s The Star Factory Martin Dowling School of Creative Arts Queen’s University of Belfast
The Star Factory
Ciarán Carson's The Star Factory
The Asian Factor in John Cage’s Aesthetics
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Holly MartinPublished April 2013An Introduction with a Previously Unpublished Interview from 1976 Introduction: Composing by Chance John Cage’s controversial ideas about art come together to form one of the most...
Blue China with Ink: Robert Motherwell’s Unlikely Homage to John Cage
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Daniel HaxallPublished April 2013In 1949, John Cage was invited to speak at the Artists Club in New York City, an interdisciplinary arts school led by Robert Motherwell that would become a driving force behind Abstract...
Cage Asleep, Sonnet Cage, Irwin Kremen Mesostic, Grabowski, Cage in John and Yoko’s Kitchen, and Elegy Cage
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Joseph BathantiPublished April 2013Cage AsleepTonight in the QuietHouse – stone and beamchapel cenotaph for MarkDreier, killed in a LakeEden car – Cage sleeps,Whitmanesque his suspiration,cicadas’ mewlingcontrapuntal,...
Mesosticage
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Daniel ScandurraPublished April 2013
Two Cages, One College
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4David PattersonPublished April 2013 Cage at Black Mountain College, 1948 and 1952 … at the time John [Adams] was teaching anthropology there. It seems that John, as an amateur artist, often consulted other artists on...
Imaginal Landscapes
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Steve LansfordPublished April 2013Imaginal Landscapes
Anarchism – Buddhism – Contingency
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Jerzy LutyPublished April 2013Empty Words and (a)political art of John Cage 1. "The demilitarization of language: a serious musical concern" In the 1957 essay Experimental Music John Cage writes: “And what is the...
Multimedia Performance for BMC International Conference 2011
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Damian CateraPublished April 2013EOH v.5 is a multimedia performance featuring randomly transformed fragments of appropriated baroque instrumental music accompanied by a projected visual component showing animations of...
Perilous Nights and Shaggy Nags
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Edward CrooksPublished April 2013The Influence of Joseph Campbell on John Cage Introduction The development of John Cage’s influential artistic and philosophical theories has been the object of particular interest in...
Remembrance of Interviews Past
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Lili CorbusPublished April 2013Cage (and Me) A slightly revised version of this paper was originally presented at “ReVIEWING BMC 3: John Cage’s Circle of Influence,” held at UNC Asheville in October, 2011. This is...
John Cage at Black Mountain
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Mary Emma HarrisPublished April 2013A Preliminary Thinking The occasion of the 2011 ReVIEWING BMC 3 conference sponsored by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the University of North Carolina at...
Making a Difference: Ramifications of Unity and Diversity, Repetition and Variation, in the Work of John Cage
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Steve LansfordPublished April 20131. Introduction: What Does it All Mean? Repeated patterns, acting as they do on the conscious and unconscious mind, are an essential part of what makes language of any kind (whether...
Leave Mine,
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Ashley PaulPublished April 2013I always hear people talk about Cages theories, his use of chance, the I Ching. What I feel is missed and neglected in all this discussion is the way his music actually sounds – the...
Determining Indeterminacy
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Dean WilcoxPublished April 2013John Cage made you realize that there wasn't a thing called noise,it was just music you hadn't appreciated. ~ Brian Eno For years now John Cage has been my “go-to guy” for potent...
Owenvarragh: A Belfast Circus on The Star Factory
Journal of Black Mountain College Studies Volume 4Úna Monaghan and Martin DowlingPublished April 2013 Owenvarragh: A Belfast Circus on The Star Factory Creating a Circus of Words, Music, and Sound: From Roaratorio to Owenvarragh Rhythm, Rhymes, and Pleasure: Mesostics...