{"id":9406,"date":"2015-07-31T11:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/?p=9406"},"modified":"2018-02-16T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:46:20","slug":"john-cage-two-cd-review-fluid-airy-and-virtuosically-unhurried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/31\/john-cage-two-cd-review-fluid-airy-and-virtuosically-unhurried\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cage: Two&sup3; CD review \u2013 fluid, airy and virtuosically unhurried"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9408\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/review_two3-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going off script \u2026 Wu Wei<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stefan Hussong\/Wu Wei (Wergo)<br \/>\n<em>by: Kate Molleson, Thu 30 Jul 2015<\/em><br \/>\nTwo\u00b3 is one of the chance-determined Number Pieces that Cage wrote at the end of his life. It was originally for water-filled conch shells and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yUpr1F1dZt0\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">ancient Japanese mouth organ called the sho<\/a>, but Wu Wei and Stefan Hussong have gone a little off script here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nn45L7Sebjw\">Wei substitutes the sho for an even older Chinese mouth organ called the sheng<\/a>, while Hussong adds accordion to his conch shells, with the idea that its metal reeds make it sonically sympathetic as a younger member of the sho-sheng family. Often it\u2019s hard to tell which instrument is playing what, but it doesn\u2019t particularly matter; the effect of the performance is fluid, airy and virtuosically unhurried. Chords drift in and out as weightless as a Calder mobile, constantly reframing the space around them, and 30 seconds of silence can pass without any sense of alarm. There are tiny storms of tension and release, but the Zen acceptance that underpins Cage\u2019s late works is what really lingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Hussong\/Wu Wei (Wergo) by: Kate Molleson, Thu 30 Jul 2015 Two\u00b3 is one of the chance-determined Number Pieces that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefan-hussong.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}