Merce Cunningham talking about John Cage and David Tudor

Since I became more involved in experimental music, avant-garde, or whatever you want to call it, like many people I was highly influenced by the theories and philosophy of John Cage. Now after all these years whenever I listen not only to his voice, but also other people talking about him I feel very emotional. I was always attracted by the way he was describing the importance of silence and how sounds belong in the silence-noise axis.
So, after this very brief introduction I recently found a video of Merce Cunningham talking about John Cage and David Tudor and their collaborations, but it also contains some excepts of John Cage talking. To view it click here to go to the website.

New session (still unable to remember the number)

After a very long time quite lost in data and the internet I decided to upload some new tracks. What is very noticeable is that the last time I uploaded some tracks it was exactly one year ago!

So one of my inspirations for uploading this playlist was a concert I watched with Tim Hecker  and I have to admit that he really gives a new notion to the very old terminology and meaning of ambient music. It seems that ambient music is no longer just the background music that becomes more noticeable, but Hecker's new album brings forward this music and creates multiple layers of sounds, feelings and imaginary images. However, there are also very nice tracks from Christoph Heemann, the amazing Coil, Chihei Hatakeyama, Fennesz and other fantastic musicians.

Graphing feelings in sound images from kingofalldeserts on 8tracks Radio.