Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["Peter H. Ruegg" <>]

On 03/16/2012 09:10 PM, 

 wrote:

>  I am currently investigating the indeterminate aspects in Variations IV. I 
> have
>  found in an article that chance procedures were used in the composing of the
>  Variations scores, but I can't find anymore on this.

While I'm not sure about Variations IV I do remember mentions of using the
I Ching as a method to determine chance outcomes occurring repeatedly in 
Cage's
work:

http://www.biroco.com/yijing/cage.htm

Maybe that helps.

--
Peter H. Ruegg


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