Cramps , the label of total music, publishing his first works in
1973: "Arbeit macht frei" of the area and "John Cage" by John Cage (music
of silence), two seemingly antithetical works, but both
revolutionary in the field of musical art.
If, on the one hand, the area turn to the formal research, expressive and
communicate the social message, the other goes to John Cage
sound research as the relative importance of chance and time.
charismatic figure of its founder, Gianni Sassi, remained in the memory
all after the untimely death has the merit to sense the change
and the need to travel, art, unexplored areas of the interior,
stimulate the reactions of the mind with unusual messages and proposals.

JOHN CAGE
Con un percorso fotografico di Roberto Masotti
Curated by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, Daniele Lombardi
TECHNICAL NOTE
Texts by Gino Di Maggio, Achille Bonito Oliva, Daniele Lombardi, James J. Martini, Roberto Masotti, Ginluca Ranzi, Marinella Guatterini, Daniel Charles, Gabriele Bonomo, Sergio Albergoni, Michele Porzio, Sylvano Bussotti, Giancarlo Cardini, Paolo Castaldi, Alvin Curran, Franco Masotti, Gigliola Nocera, Marcello Panni, John Cage, Luigi Serafini, Luciano Berio.
Milano, Edizioni Mudima.
Year: 2009.
Language: Italian.
Pages: 457.
Weight: 1.3 kg.
Size: 24x16,5 cm.
Technical characteristics: hard cardboard cover with sewn binding; color.