Authoring archival monographs, contemporary art books, and exploratory printed matter. Los Angeles: Atelier Editions, 2020. 15.00. Upon the remarkable journey with Cage, one encounters assorted photographs, compositions, and contemplations; all in the very same unexpected fashion one encounters various flora and fungi species while mushroom foraging. A daily dosage is said to ensure your immune system stays strong, your joints stay healthy and your blood sugar remains balanced. It meanders across compositions, photographs, contemplations, drawings, and essays, rousing multiple senses as it goes. In the margins, Cage specifies timing for individual sections. 750.00. In MUSHROOMS et Variationes, letters are chewed, hands hold rebirth, and vision sways and tumbles. Please consider supporting our journalism, and help keep our independent reporting free and accessible to all. (including an unbound portfolio), 8 x 10.75 inches, “I have come to the conclusion that much can be learned about music by devoting oneself to the mushroom.” - JOHN CAGE, 1954. The text tumbles down in tight stanzas, forming the names of mycological species in bold letters down the middle. Receive 20% off your order with code Holiday20 x. Each mushroom is what it is — its own centre.” Chance prevails. John Cage: A Mycological Foray. It’s like the Zen statement that every day is a beautiful day. Whereas I take the attitude in music that no sounds are deadly. Edited by Ananda Pellerin. Atelier Éditions. John Cage: A Mycological Foray draws readers across the idiosyncratic, mushroom-suffused, innermost landscape of celebrated American composer John Cage. Neither volume possesses a uniform structure. Related Slip case, book and cover of “John Cage: A Mycological Foray – Variations on Mushrooms”, published by Atelier Editions. Now Atelier Éditions is releasing a two-part, slipcased volume: John Cage: A Mycological Foray–Variations on Mushrooms. At a party, John Cage was once overheard saying, “I compose music but mostly I’m a mushroom identifier.” Composing, for Cage, was an act of collecting the detritus of everyday sounds. San Francisco friends! The boxed set will be the first-ever reproduction of the 1972 collection, which was published in an edition of only 75. It is the book’s singular mix of tactile, aural, and visual elements that induces the sensory acuity Cage relished. Text by Kingston Trinder. Now, in a new hardback two volume release from Atelier Éditions, readers are guided through Cage’s relationship with mushrooms which was very woven into his artistic practice. Volume II offers the inaugural reproduction of Cage’s 1972 portfolio, Mushroom Book; authored in collaboration with illustrator Lois Long and botanist Alexander H. Smith. Only a breath is allocated to each stanza and over the course of its 72 pages, the words oscillate between sonorous fluidity and mouthfuls of garbled mush. Atelier Éditions presents John Cage: A Mycological Foray – Variations on Mushrooms, a monograph exploring the American composer’s fascination with mushrooms, releasing early June 2020. ISBN: 9781733622004 Condition: As New Softcover in slipcase 1st Edition Foraging for mushrooms with John Cage: writing, art, photography and ephemera from an idiosyncratic chapter in the composer's life Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage’s mushroom-themed compositions, … Each reading of John Cage: A Mycological Foray acts similarly. His process was fungal by nature. Atelier Éditions is a limited-edition publishing house & curatorial project based in Los Angeles, California. Identifying fungi was also a means of savoring a kinship with decomposition. 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