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John Cage - One And 103 (USED) | Mode mode174
John Cage - One And 103 (USED) | Mode mode174

John Cage - One And 103 (USED)

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Label: Mode

Cat No: mode174

Barcode: 0764593017493

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Year: 2006

This is a used product

Contents

Works

Cage, John

103 for large orchestra (1991)
One11

Artists

John Cage
Henning Lohner

Conductor

John Kennedy

Works

Cage, John

103 for large orchestra (1991)
One11

Artists

John Cage
Henning Lohner

Conductor

John Kennedy

About

John Cage created his only feature-length film in the year he died. A sublime performance for camera person and light, One11 is a film without subject, in black and white. There is light but no persons, no things, no ideas about repetition and variation. The final impression is of another, timeless place - freely roaming the clouds or, perhaps, under the sea. Chance operations were used with respect to the lighting, camera shots and the editing of the film. The light environment was designed and programmed by John Cage and Andrew Culver.
 
The orchestral work 103 musically accompanies One11. Like the film, 103 is 90 minutes long, divided into seventeen parts - its density varies from solos, duos, trios to full orchestral tuttis.
 
Cage started to address the perception of emptiness and at the same time the random quality of what happens in a prescribed space as early as 1952 in his piece 4:33, which consisted entirely of silence. 40 years later he said: "Of course the film will be about the effect of light in an empty space. But no space is actually empty and the light will show what is in it. And all this space and all this light will be controlled by random operations." This simple concept was implemented professionally and with a great deal of technical input in a Munich television studio under the direction of Henning Lohner.

The film One11 and the musical piece ("soundtrack") 103 are of the same duration and run in parallel, without relating directly to each other, but each has 17 parts. Each of the parts is based on approximately 1200 random operations devised by a computer and determining how the lighting is controlled and the movements of a crane-mounted camera. The result, aided by the distinguished cameraman Van Theodore Carlson, is a film entirely without plot or actors, which Cage hopes will enable viewers to find themselves.

The recording of 103 for large orchestra is taken from the première of the piece by the prestigious WDR Symphony Orchestra of the German Radio in Cologne.
 

“As new releases of John Cage go, this is probably about as major as it gets…Cage himself looks frail and died shortly after One11 appeared. But what an extraordinary valedictory throw of the dice.” The Wire, February 2007

Additional Features:
- Choice of two orchestral soundtracks.
- The Making of One11: a 43-minute documentary on the creative process and realisation of the film made for television by Henning Lohner at that time - with new narration by Joan La Barbara.
- Interview with Van Carlson & Henning Lohner discussing their work with Cage and the film, the technical
challenges, and more. Filmed for this DVD in 2006. (33 minutes).

Track Listing

TrackTitleDurationArtists
1.1 One11 And 103 93:36 WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
1.2 One11 And 103 93:36 Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra
2 Making Of 43:05
3 Van Carlso And Henning Lohner On 33:16

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