Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)

by John Cage

Overview

An eight-CD set of brilliant observations, from the humorous to the speculative to the heart-filling. Cage speaks of lives and notions of the well-known - B. Fuller, Thoreau, the Vietnam War, Meister Eckhart, Schoenberg, being crammed in a subway car and odd confrontations with airplane employees ; of unique and everyday events--unemployment, free worldwide commnications, dads and moms, electric clothing, workable anarchy. The typography determines the stereo distribution and level of Cage's voice, the effect of someone talking inside your head, disembodied. (The printed texts additionally used color changes to parallel this effect.) Some of the text, pictures of Cage reading and the clean water supply, and chronologies accompany the discs. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny

Product Details

Release Date:	01/11/2000
Label:	Wergo
UPC:	4010228691221
Rank:	229569

Tracks

Disc 1

1. [Untitled Track]

Disc 2

2. [Untitled Track]

Disc 3

3. [Untitled Track]

Disc 4

4. [Untitled Track]

Disc 5

5. [Untitled Track]

Disc 6

6. [Untitled Track]

Disc 7

7. [Untitled Track]

Disc 8

8. [Untitled Track]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

John Cage   Primary Artist,Spoken Word

Technical Credits

Fanny Schoening   Photography
Peter Andersen   Photography
Peter Anderson   Photography
Klaus Schoning   Liner Notes,Producer