'Through the network of wires: Portsmouth Abbey, Richard Lippold, and Postwar Syncretism'

摘要

In a lecture entitled "Experimental Music," presented in Chicago in the winter of 1957, the American composer John Cage discussed the ways in which his new ideas about the "openness" of musical composition had been shaped by his encounters with modern art and architecture, and especially by the experience of looking at and through the delicate wire installations of his friend Richard Lippold (1915-2002): "For in this new music nothing takes place but sounds," he said, "those that are notated and those that are not.