Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Jeremy Millar <>]

I think you're right: people were walking around with big grins on their faces, and Julie told me the same was true of her show too.

BTW, I forgot to mention that the book is now available, also, with new reproductions of many of the works in the show, as well as interview with Laura Kuhn, Kathan Brown, Ray Kass, and Julie Lazar; it's a rather beautiful thing, also.

BW,

J.

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On 2 Jul 2010, at 14:25, Rod Stasick wrote:

I would think that the exhibition shows the beauty of chance

in the same way that Rolywholyover did - by the observer's

removal of the template of expectation.

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On шіл. 2, 2553 BE, at 05:31, Jeremy Millar wrote:

Stefano,

Thanks for your response; I hope you liked the images. Actually, there was no surprise at all that the exhibition turned out as it did, from me at least; it was exactly as I imagined it would be when I conceived the show a few years ago, and indeed had a certain inevitability about it. If there was any surprise at all, it was that even knowing this, I was still virtually speechless at the beauty of the installation...

BW,

J.

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On 2 Jul 2010, at 10:26, Stefano Pocci wrote:

On 07/02/2010 02:42 AM, Jeremy Millar wrote:

Dear all,

The exhibition 'Every Day is a Good Day' opened at Baltic, Gateshead, a couple of weeks ago, and we were lucky enough to have Laura Kuhn there, too. I think that the exhibition is breathtakingly beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful I've ever seen; as it was selected and installed used a random number generator this has given the curator in me some pause for thought.

I only have a couple of installation photographs at the moment — more to follow — and have put them on my site for those who might be interested:

http://www.jeremymillar.org/works-detail.php?wid=224

With thanks and best wishes,

Jeremy

That's weird... or maybe not. I remember someone saying that even if Cage used random generators (be it the I-Ching book or the equivalent software) what did actually turn out in the end was very Cage-like, as if chance was seconding Cage strange taste (if he had one:-) So you shouldn't be surprised by the result you obtained.

I guess chance will always work fine with anything by Cage.

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Stefano

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