Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

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Cage advocated the use of "electronic" instruments as early as 1937, yet he never composed for the devices (Theremin, ondes Martenot) that were, by the mid-thirties, fairly well established. Instead, he relied on "found" instruments - frequency test records played on variable-speed turntables, most significantly - in a quest to produce new and unexpected sounds.

 

Does anyone have thoughts on why Cage moved away from experimentation with electronic instruments, returning to this only much later?

 

Eric Levin

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