To: BenLurkin
John Cage was a mushroom enthusiast. He music was ethereal, crazy, random, and avant garde at the time, but he could not pick wild mushrooms according to his random notes. A stark incongruous repudiation of his music. Play all your discordant music you want, but you cannot pick wild mushrooms in the same manner, it will kill you.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/a-mushroom-related-brush-with-mortality-how-john-cage-fell-for-fungi/ar-BB189oE5
30 posted on
09/07/2020 9:02:01 PM PDT by
Fungi
To: Fungi; MinuteGal
“John Cage was a mushroom enthusiast.”
He had a book he wrote which was in the Music Library I worked in when very young at UIUC, and I remember flipping through the book. I was about his musical life but interspersed throughout was mushroom lore, his second passion next to experimental music.
40 posted on
09/07/2020 9:35:12 PM PDT by
flaglady47
(Donald Trump, President for Life (heh, heh))
To: Fungi
42 posted on
09/07/2020 9:39:11 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
To: Fungi
“Put simply, for Cage, music was music and mushrooms were mushrooms. “
Wasn’t music. Was artistic wankery
45 posted on
09/07/2020 9:41:35 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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