Something Close to Music - by John Ashbery Sound Art How does something as potent

How does something as potent and evocative as the body become a relatively neutral artistic material

They chart a process that is equally conceptual and intimate

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Welcomed into Melbourne’s artistic community by members of the infamous ‘Heide Circle’

Cage's assistant from 1986 to 1992 and now longtime director of the John Cage Trust

Something Close to Music - by John Ashbery Sound Art How does something as potentAshberys poetry is frequently described as ekphrastic, though, rather than writing a poem based on or inspired by the content of an artwork or piece of music, he engages with how the experience of seeing it and the artistic strategies employed offer ways of thinking about it and through it. Many observations from Ashberys art writing also provide keys to how we might read his poetry. Many recordings he listened to feature contemporary classical works