Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged beethoven, black mountain college, erik satie, john cage on December 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In 1948, his first year of teaching at Black Mountain College, John Cage gave a lecture on Erik Satie, at the time a little-known French composer. To make his point about Satie’s significance, Cage weighed him against a composer who needed no introduction. ‘Beethoven was in error,’ he said, ‘and his influence, which has been [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged black mountain college, buckminster fuller, carbondale il, dymaxion, geodesic domes, stewart brand, whole earth catalog on February 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“By 1948, [Buckminster] Fuller’s geometric investigations had led him to the idea of the geodesic dome — essentially, a series of struts that could support a covering skin. That summer, he was invited to teach at Black Mountain College…. Toward the end of his stay, Fuller and a team of students assembled a trial dome [...]
