John Cage - A Mycological Foray

John Cage: A Mycological Foray: Variations on Mushrooms / ISBN 9781733622004 / two paperback volumes in a slipcase, 8 inches x 10.75 inches / 224 pages including an unbound portfolio “I have come to the conclusion that much can be learned about music by devoting oneself to the mushroom.”--John Cage, 1954 *** Finalist for the Lucie Photobook Prize Award 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, photographs, illustrations and ephemera. Indeterminacy Stories and other writings by Cage are interwoven throughout the first volume within a central essay examining Cage’s enduring relationship with mycology. Also included is a transcript of Cage’s 1983 performance, MUSHROOMS et Variationes. The second volume is the inaugural reproduction of Cage’s 1972 portfolio, Mushroo