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<div class="">Funny coincidence, Wolfgang and Phil! (and so great to hear from you)</div>
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<div class="">I will be broadcasting it on May 25 for Radio Tenthaus in Oslo (105.8 FM).</div>
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<div class="">…it’s a radio/pandemic revisiting of an earlier/live/in person thing I did with it in London (2010) at the Showroom called ‘Veiled Conversation No.9: An Irreverent Listening Engagement with John Cage’s Empty Words’</div>
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<div class="">Hope you are well and </div>
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Phill
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[Experimental-intermedia]
John Cage's Empty Words</b><br class="">
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">April
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<span class="subject"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt;" class="">John Cage's Empty Words</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="addressdispform"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt;" class="">From:<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Joseph Celli</span></b></span><span class="addresswsitem"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(<a href="mailto:josephcelli99@gmail.com" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">josephcelli99@gmail.com</a>)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Helv;" class="">This Friday evening a 12 hour streamed performance </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Helv;" class="">of John Cage's Empty Words from Wesleyan University, Connecticut</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Helv;" class="">stay up & drink some coffee! We did the complete </span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Helv;" class="">WHAT'S IN MIND IS TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT READING</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Helv;" class="">From the evening of April 30 into the morning of May 1, Stuart Wheeler will perform John Cage's 12-hour overnight piece Empty Words. Cage composed this in the 1970s by fragmenting and
collaging language from Henry David Thoreau's 14 volumes of journals. The piece is divided into four sections, each two and a half hours long with 30-minute intermissions. It begins with a variety of large and small units of language (phrases, words, syllables
and letters) and steadily removes the larger units until the final section (timed to begin precisely at dawn) where only single letters and silences remain. Cage thought of this as "a transition from language to music."</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Helv;" class="">The performance will take place over Zoom; all times are in Eastern Standard Time. It's a slumber party, so you're encouraged to put it on, stay up as late as you want, take a nap, go
to sleep, wake up. At dawn, open your windows and doors to let in the sounds from the outside world.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Helv;" class="">Pre-concert talk by Stuart Wheeler on Thursday April 29 at 4:30 PM</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Helv;" class="">Performance of Empty Words from Friday April 30 at 8:17 PM to Saturday May 1 at 7:47 AM</span></div>
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