Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Rob Haskins <>]

I made a videotape of  a countup timer for running---70 minutes or so, I believe--and then had that copied onto a DVD. Works great. I think he did use a red LED clock, and I priced some of those, but the ones I found were much too expensive for me.

Rob

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Jeff Gavett <> wrote:

Hello again Silencers,

I'm looking for a more elegant solution to what some of my groups performing Cage pieces using clock time have been doing. We've just been using kitchen timers or something similar, but it makes a little bit of a theatrical gesture to synchronize those at the top of a piece. 

Does anyone know the technical specifications of the 'video clock' that Cage made use of in the orchestral number pieces? I vaguely remember seeing some kind of red LED clock in a video, but could be imagining things. 

Best,

Jeff

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