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John Cage: "Mushroom Haiku" and "At the Middle"

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Uploaded on Aug 1, 2009

John Cage reinterprets a Haiku poem and existentially contemplates the middle of the fourth large part of his talk.

Photo of John Cage, reading at Harvard University, 1990. Courtesy of the John Cage Trust.
Photo by Betty Freeman.

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  • Geoff B

    Geoff B 2 months ago

    What leaf?

    What mushroom?

    Brilliant, classic Cage.

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  • MreenalMams

    MreenalMams 11 months ago

    beautiful.. really nothingness is somethingness, and it is definitele pleasureable..

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  • superfluousness321

    superfluousness321 1 year ago

    @allogenes37 as in omens and portents- wiki is your friend. :)

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  • allogenes37

    allogenes37 1 year ago

    Portentious is not the word. Pretentious is more like it.

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  • jamesaellis

    jamesaellis 1 year ago

    So there was no mushroom or leaf?

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  • SmallRubberFeet

    SmallRubberFeet 1 year ago

    I went to sleep

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  • RustyRazor2010

    RustyRazor2010 1 year ago

    Beautiful...

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  • DamiaanVDW

    DamiaanVDW 1 year ago

    thanks for uploading

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  • jeaniebaby001

    jeaniebaby001 1 year ago

    松茸や知らぬ木の葉のへばり付く...

    :)

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  • alexsweeley

    alexsweeley 1 year ago

    I love listening to Cage talk, his last interpretation of the haiku made me chuckle.

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