The Wire 20 Years 1982-2002: Audio Issue
by John Cage
- Type: Compilation
- Released: November 2002
- Label: Unknown
- Country: United States
- Length: 3:45:50
- Community rating: 3.95/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'The Wire 20 Years 1982-2002: Audio Issue' is a compilation by John Cage, drawing together experimental material in a single archival collection. Its writing and arrangement foreground avant-garde, dissonant construction, keeping the focus on the sound itself.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, dissonant, improvisation, noisy, complex
Tracklist
- The Wire (5:12)
- Seguita (3:12)
- Wrong Eye (5:54)
- Egress (excerpt) (4:11)
- Buried Dreams (5:22)
- Tubby’s Vengeance (2:57)
- Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) (4:08)
- M 5 (2:41)
- Cockfight / Trance in Paksabali and Kesiman / Gamelan Beleganjur (5:30)
- Pygmäen (1:20)
- After Rapidly Circling the Plaza (excerpt) (6:33)
- 11,000 Volts (3:31)
- Breathe Deep (5:16)
- The Death of the Composer Was in 1962 (3:12)
- Vandal (5:13)
- Soaking Bodies in Dub (2:57)
- Shenshema (9:08)
- Illistrum (8:13)
- Expressway to Yr Skull (7:03)
- Salt (4:44)
- Paper Hats (5:58)
- Simple Headphone Mind (10:40)
- Rock ’n’ Roll Station (4:41)
- Ancient Ethiopia (2:47)
- Jukebox Capriccio (3:11)
- Williams Mix (5:42)
- Cathode #4 (soundcheck version) (5:22)
- Headphones (5:40)
- I (excerpt) (9:43)
- Satan Side (2:14)
- Music for the Gift, Part I (5:42)
- Silver Smoke of Dreams (4:50)
- Rocket USA (4:16)
- 4.2 (9:08)
- Vaihe (Fön) (4:46)
- Kebabträume (3:32)
- Khalid of Space, Part 2 – Welcome (12:25)
- Players With Circuits (5:50)
- The Caution Appears, Part 5 (4:39)
- Living Space (10:26)
- Some Summer Day (3:26)
- 23 Minutes to Go (4:35)