A Series of Small Events: Indeterminacy at the Battersea Arts Centre - September 2012 One Stop Arts - By Kate Mason - September 26th, 2012

The elements of chance and improvisation mean that no two performances of Indeterminacy will ever be the same – each time we are witnessing something perfectly unique and strange. Featuring a variety of unusual instruments, and a highly unorthodox use of children’s toys, Alan Tomlinson, Stewart Lee, Tania Chen and Steve Beresford experiment with the…

Stewart Lee presents John Cage’s Indeterminacy, Cafe OTO - September 2012 The Arts Desk - By Joe Muggs - September 26th, 2012

John Cage is funny: this much we know. The deadpan prankster at the heart of 20th-century artistic experimentalism was always about the inadvertent punchline, the chuckle that comes from unexpected disjunction, the relief that comes from reminders of the absurdity of reality, as much as he was ever about any engagement with progress, technology, the…

John Cage meets Stewart Lee - September 2012 Devil's Trill - By Andrew - September 23rd, 2012

Stewart Lee, Tania Chen, Steve Beresford, Alan Tomlinson Battersea Arts Centre, September 23 2012 Even now, a century after his birth, John Cage’s art feels brilliantly fresh. I say art, because although you’ll see him described as a composer, his exploration of sound was genuinely genre busting, exploding the idea of what music could be.…

Approaching The Unfamiliar: Stewart Lee On John Cage’s Indeterminacy - September 2012 TheQuietUs - By David Stubbs - September 14th, 2012

Ahead of a clutch of performances, Stewart Lee talks about the overlaps between comedy and avant garde music In 1959, John Cage released an album on the Folkways label called Indeterminacy. As ever with Cage, the idea was deceptively self-explanatory and simple. He read out a series of stories about a whole bunch of stuff,…