<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post6693172539669639073..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4264526745918693226</id><published>2008-01-30T12:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-30T12:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for this. I got the book. It’s truly beauti...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for this. I got the book. It’s truly beautiful. Like the title says. Important for me is Anne Tardos included a nice selection from “Presidents of the United States.” 1966 I think I read these poems and got zapped. I understood how Jackson&#39;s aleatoric (anarchic) methods could intersect and feed his urge for lyricism and his Zen-fullness. It helped me a lot. Also, preceding “Presidents,” I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/4264526745918693226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/4264526745918693226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html?showComment=1201714860000#c4264526745918693226' title=''/><author><name>Bobby Byrd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6693172539669639073' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6693172539669639073' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846872364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6324118642377513297</id><published>2008-01-15T07:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T07:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis: &#39;I never thought much of Cage, despite his...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis: &#39;I never thought much of Cage, despite his frequently diverting musical compositions, as a &quot;thinker.&quot;&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Usually, Cage is considered a thinker by people who don&#39;t want to deal with his art. It&#39;s refreshing to see you put it the other way round. Of course, he always was a composer and performer first (and a writer and visual artist and etc. etc. second). What is most interesting in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/6324118642377513297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/6324118642377513297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html?showComment=1200401880000#c6324118642377513297' title=''/><author><name>Samuel Vriezen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16229066450439148225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6693172539669639073' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6693172539669639073' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1125742735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6164743538130690374</id><published>2008-01-14T21:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-14T21:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>pee est..It wasn&#39;t NOTATIONS that he was working o...</title><summary type='text'>pee est..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It wasn&#39;t NOTATIONS that he was working on  but, rather it was  &quot;M  writings &#39;67-&#39;72&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Jackson was on Hoe St in the Bronx.. John on Bank Street...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;as I just found his note in&lt;BR/&gt;     M</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/6164743538130690374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/6164743538130690374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html?showComment=1200364200000#c6164743538130690374' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6693172539669639073' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6693172539669639073' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6899412799801046094</id><published>2008-01-14T21:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-14T21:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>many of John cage&#39;s scores exist as single copies ...</title><summary type='text'>many of John cage&#39;s scores exist as single copies in university archives.. if they exist at all..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I visited his music publisher  (in Manhattan) in 1971. John was there&lt;BR/&gt;working at an huge tilted table over by the window.. press-typing pieces for NOTATIONS.. when I told him that I was there to see how he notated his &quot;stuff&quot; he pulled out several transparent sheets and overlaid several </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/6899412799801046094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/6899412799801046094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html?showComment=1200363360000#c6899412799801046094' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6693172539669639073' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6693172539669639073' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1633121486089793573</id><published>2008-01-14T20:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-14T20:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mac Low is one of those writers whom we tend to &quot;f...</title><summary type='text'>Mac Low is one of those writers whom we tend to &quot;forget.&quot;  His experiments were so sophisticated--and his individual projects so varied, and successful--that we tend to take them for granted.  I never thought much of Cage, despite his frequently diverting musical compositions, as a &quot;thinker.&quot;  If we tend not to value Mac Low&#39;s works as much as we might, it&#39;s probably our rote preconception of &quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/1633121486089793573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/1633121486089793573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html?showComment=1200360540000#c1633121486089793573' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6693172539669639073' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6693172539669639073' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7613988413366130305</id><published>2008-01-14T10:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-14T10:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,indeed, this is a wonderful book, which I have...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;indeed, this is a wonderful book, which I have been very happy to be able to spend my first weeks of 2008 with. Agreed, also, on Doings - and indeed, a Complete Mac Low would be a great next step.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As to Cage: his use of chance does predate Mac Low&#39;s, starting in the third movement of the Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra, which was written in 1951. The story is that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/7613988413366130305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6693172539669639073/comments/default/7613988413366130305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html?showComment=1200325380000#c7613988413366130305' title=''/><author><name>Samuel Vriezen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16229066450439148225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/thing-of-beauty-truly-is.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6693172539669639073' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6693172539669639073' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1125742735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2008"/></entry></feed>