ITL #9: The Glass Cage
After issuing a correction from Episode 1, Chris and Sridhar discuss Glenn Gould's early appreciation of recording technology, the music of John Cage and Philip Glass, the phenomenon of 20th century music generally, and humans' attitudes towards the new.
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Glenn Gould plays Beethoven's 6th Symphony on piano
Gould's "Acoustic Orchestrations" album
Gould's Scriabin recording session (short documentary)
Gould's recording of Scriabin's Sonata No. 5 - a look under the hood
Glenn Gould statue in Toronto - map link
Marshall McLuhan - Canadian media theorist
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Glenn Gould, and the Goldberg Variations
John Cage - American composer, artist, philosopher, mycologist
Cage's 4'33'' played by David Tudor
Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Cage's notes for preparing the piano for Sonatas and Interludes
Aleatoric (chance) music - wikipedia
"Making Music With Dice" - 12Tone video
A Year With John Cage - How To Get Out Of The Cage (Documentary by Frank Scheffer)
Cage plays "Child of Tree" for amplified cactus and feather
Cage's obsession with mushrooms
Cage's "Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake"
Finnegans Wake - Irish pub in San Francisco's Cole Valley
James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" with annotations
The Orange Tree by Philip Glass (from The Illusionist)
The Illusionist - full movie with music by Philip Glass (shh...don't tell anyone)
Philip Glass' (disowned) Sonatina No. 2
Helen's Theme from Candyman (by Philip Glass) played on theremin
Anton Ego's monologue from "Ratatouille" - voiced by Peter O'Toole