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more john cage
Day Seven of no caffeine.
And here's John Cage on computer music and the gift economy:
"Computers're bringing about a situation that's like the invention of harmony. Sub-routines are like chords. No one would think of keeping a chord to himself. You'd give it to anyone who wanted it. You'd welcome alterations of it. Sub-routines are altered by a single punch. We're getting music made by man himself : not just one man."
—"Art and Technology" (1969)
Elsewhere (and some time ago) the always-charming Ray B. points out the most recent realization of Cage's "A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-One Waltzes and Fifty-Six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity," a composition made from field recordings made in and around Chicago according to this amazing visual score. |
Monday, May 26, 2003
1:48 PM
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