Humming voice by Hungarian composer, performer, and media artist Tibor Scemzö 
Excerpts from ‘Tractatus’ (1991-1995)

Purring by Mayakovsky (the cat, not the poet)

Additional voices: 12 composers reciting randomly selected fragments of the writings by Henry David Thoreau. Excerpt from ‘Lecture about the Weather’ (1975) by John Cage (1912-1992), performed at The New York Chamber Music Festival on Cage's 100th birthday, 5 September 2012

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“I have a room all to myself; it is nature. It is a place beyond the jurisdiction of human governments.”

From the journal of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
3 January 1853

nature is a place

And He Was Transfigured (2023)
by Buck McDaniel 

Live Recording
March 2023
The Choir of Our Saviour & Sacred Hearts
Joshua Henderson, viola
Buck McDaniel, conductor
New York City

And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as light.

And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, ‘Lord, it is good for us to be here.”

He was still speaking, when lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am pleased; listen to him.”

[Matthew 17:2-5]

And He Was Transfigured (2023) - SSA voices & viola | by Buck McDaniel

Voice of John Cage (1912-1992) 
Excerpt from an interview in 'Listen’ (Écoute), a film by Miroslav Sebestik, 1992

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When I hear what we call music
It seems to me that someone is talking
And talking about his feelings or about his ideas of relationships

But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic, here on 6th Avenue for instance,
I don’t have the feeling that anybody is talking
I have the feeling that sound is acting

Sound is acting 
And I love the activity of sound

What it does is
It gets louder and quieter
And it gets higher and lower
And it gets longer and shorter
It does all these things
Which I’m completely satisfied with
And I don’t need sound to talk to me

It gets louder and quieter
And it gets higher and lower
And it gets longer and shorter
And I don’t need sound to talk to me

Sound is acting 
And I love the activity of sound

Sound is acting 
And I love the activity of sound

We don’t see much difference between time and space
We don’t know where one begins and the other stops

There are two things that don’t have to mean anything
One is music and the other is laughter

Don’t have to mean anything, that is
In order to give a us very deep pleasure

You know that 
Don’t we?

you know that

Steve Reich - 18 Musicians

Chance-determined music for string orchestra (violin, viola, cello, double bass).  Quarter note equals mm. 103, the number 103 being the title of the work for large orchestra that Cage indicated should be performed with his last work, "one11."  

The last four notes of "for john cage" are C-E-A-G, the four letters that spell his last name.

Method of Composition

I took slips of paper and wrote the letters A through L on each individual slip. I then put them in a bag and drew each slip of paper, in succession, from the bag.  I repeated this procedure 7 times in a row.

The first time all notes are sustained in order to create chords, or formations, of two notes.

The second time, the notes are sustained in order to form three-note chords.

Third time, 3-note chords again.

4th, 5th, and 6th Times, 4-note chords are created, except at one point during the 4th time at the end, when 6 notes are sustained so as to form one six-note chord.

7th time: 3-note chords.

The letters on the slips of paper refer to notes in the chromatic scale, beginning with the middle C on the piano. The letter A on the slip of paper indicates middle C, the letter B refers to C#, and so on ascending through the scale (the letter L is the last note of the scale, i.e. B Natural).

for john cage

Andrey Vinogradov - composition, hurdy-gurdy, arrangement

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Absoblume | Pogo Mix

Remix of My Fair Lady. Starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
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for john cage

Bill LePage

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