I welcome whatever happens next

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With I welcome whatever happens next: Memories of John Cage, Klaus Reichert presents a new book that brings together personal recollection and essayistic thought in a distinctive way. Following Lesenlernen: Über moderne Literatur und das Menschenrecht auf Poesie and Wolkendienst: Figuren des Flüchtigen (shortlisted for the German Non-Fiction Prize), Reichert returns to a subject that has accompanied him for decades: his relationship with the American composer John Cage. Emerging from encounters, conversations, and shared work, the book forms an open constellation of memories, scenes, and reflections. Reichert approaches Cage as an artist who resisted fixed form and whose music is best understood not as a finished work but as a process - an event that unfolds in listening. At the same time, the book reaches far beyond Cage himself. It explores the relationship between sound and language, chance and structure, silence and attention - and the question of how music can be described at all. It also brings into view the close connection to literature, particularly in their shared engagement with James Joyce and Finnegans Wake. Reicherts writing is marked by clarity and quietness. His recollections gain their force through precision and proximity - and invite the reader to enter into a different mode of listening and thinking. A thoughtful, multi-layered book for anyone interested in music, literature, and the art of listening.

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