Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Mark Kolmar <>]

All --

I would call 0'00" a composition about compositions, words about music, 
like a review of a style, or a plea for a kind of music made after the 
pattern that the score describes. A lot of Fluxus, in practice, ranges 
from poetry to advice. That is fine and useful. Sometimes I feel that 
the discussion on these topics falls into semantics as much as concepts.

--Mark

On 10/25/2011 1:40 PM, Rob Haskins wrote:
> Sorry, I accidentally sent this only to wonderful Vitor:
>
> With all due respect to Vitor, I would call 0'00" a composition. It's
> not conventionally musical, but its instructions (to perform a
> disciplined action at the highest level of amplification before feedback
> occurs) ensure that the piece is about the sounds produced.
>
> The concept of organized sound, for Cage, largely disappears once Cage
> embraces chance operations. For at this point, any continuity (read:
> organization) becomes acceptable /(Lecture on Something/).
>
> Sorry I can't write more on this at the moment.
>
> Best,
> Rob
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Jim Flannery 
> <
> <mailto:>>
>  wrote:
>
>     Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 11:08:00 AM, one wrote:
>
>      > if you create organized sound performing 0`00``you are performing it
>      > wrong !!!
>
>     So when Cage performed the piece, he was doing it wrong?
>
>     I think you've under-understood the score.