J ohn Cage / Robert Black, Eberhard Blum, Iven Hausmann, Gudrun Reschke, John Patrick Thomas, Jan Williams Ryoanji ★★ ★ ★ It's been a long time since I wrote something long. Almost two months; and during that period of time a lot has happened and it's involved a great range of emotions. And surprisingly, music really hasn't been something that I've turned to. It's been a mix of books and movies, and that's fine but I needed to return at some point. And while this is a daunting hour of music and something I was unfamiliar with, I'd heard good things and was interested in discovering what Cage had to say this time around. I really haven't delved into the later works of Cage, and this being composed between 1983 to 1985 makes it one of the more significant works of his later life. So the story goes that Cage visited Japan and while spending time there, stopped by Ryōan-ji, a Zen temple. The abstractness and fluidity of the rock garden, with i...
