The Cage

3: Excerpt from John Cages Water Music. Final page. The 10 pages are meant to be combines and displayed in full view of the audience. Source: Cage, John. Water Music. 1952. Henmar Press, Inc. Heile, Bjorn. "Ch.16 Toward a Theory of Experimental Music Theatre." The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art.340. Print. After the 1950’s John Cage began integrating elements of chance in both his compositional process…

Livestock cage laws I am going to prove that the new livestock cage laws are wrong. Gestation crates and farrowing crate are helpful and should not be banded. I believe that no matter what people think there are many benefits by using these pens. I am planning to give the reasons to keep them, and then give the counter thought and why it is weak. New cage laws would harm livestock because when hogs are pregnant, they attack other hogs, mother can also crash their piglets and chickens are in…

The sociological imagination holds that personal experiences link with the wider society. My focus will be on gender, class and ethnicity and how these three aspects of the CAGES model reflect my life both positively and negatively. Within the context of Auckland, I have continuously felt disengaged with this largely Eurocentric society of Auckland, being from a mixed ethnic background Iranian culture has a huge influence on my life. This links in with gender, and class and how these branches of…

In the middle to late 1900’s Phil Spector was an American producer, musician, and songwriter whose popularity spiked to the top after developing the Wall Of Sound also called Spector’s Sound. Withstanding establishment of the common stereo and preferring to have various instruments combined in a single monaural track, Spector composed this technique at the Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles. Conforming relatively facile equalizations aided in his popularity because his approach was crucial to…

Two books that compare well to each other are A List of Cages by Robin Roe and Your Voice is all I Hear by Leah Scheier. In A List of Cages, the author writes from two perspectives about two boys (Julian and Adam) and the conflicts they help each other though such as the abusive uncle, and the bullies. In Your Voice is all I Hear the author writes the book from the perspective of a girl (April) dealing with the struggles of having a schizophrenic boyfriend (Jonah) and how that affects her…

The Golden Cage The personal journey of Oscar begins during his high school days. It was 2009 and was Oscar’s second year of being here in America; The land of opportunity. Oscar was forced to learn English and took him three years to defend himself by the language barriers. Before any of that art was something that Oscar was always been good at. His high school saw that in him and put him on a lot of art classes. This was the right choice made by his counselor. Oscar’s art teacher Virginia…

“The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender,” to examine the history behind race and gender as well as the stereotypes for different races and genders. I will also use director Heredia’s 1993 documentary, The Couple in the Cage, to examine how people of different countries depict and stereotype indigenous people. Finally, I will use directors Diamond, Bainbridge and Hayes’ 2009 documentary, The Real Injun, to examine how a camp for boys with a majority of white males…

“10 Rules for Teachers and Students” by John Cage and Corita Kent lay out a baseline for necessities a designer, or people of any profession, must possess to be successful. There are three of these rules that are very important to me as a designer. These three rules deal with self-discipline, hard work, and happiness. These three helpful rules are implemented in my life every day, as a design student, as an older sibling, and as a practitioner of the Catholic faith. However, there is one rule…

Cage proposed a complete opposition to the belief of the canon. He believed “we [should] stop listening to masterpieces and start listening to sounds, the music all around us, with new and open ears” (Burkholder, 131). His ideals focused on the understanding that all things in life are made of music. Cage argued that the structured design of the canon restricts the audience’s own belief of enjoyable music…

The story I chose to read was the cage. It is about Riva, her mother and three brothers living with their land lord in Poland. Soon after Germany invades Poland the land lady betrays them and they are robbed. The gates of their small community get locked and no one enters only exits. After a couple years’ madness has spread throughout the ghetto, and her brother Laibele gets tuberculosis. Her mother is then taken away in a Nazi raid because she seems to be ill and not fit to work, after her…