Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

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On 2/3/14, 17:22 , Andrew Culver wrote:
> "Any design repeated often enough on a sound track is audible. Two hundred 
> and eighty circles per second on a sound track will produce one sound, 
> whereas a portrait of Beethoven repeated fifty times per second on a sound 
> track will have not only a different pitch but a different sound quality.”

one way to look at this is as a wave form. where the archetypal 'cycle'
is a sine wave. then, instead of this 'linear circle' shape, you can
substitute a profile of beethoven between the starting and ending points
of the wave, repeating it in accordance with his instructions.

cage did a lot of this kind of thing throughout his life. in the
songbooks, for instance, a melodic line follows the geographic curve of
the concord river.

also, i think the primary technology cage used throughout his life and
work is the human imagination. among others, of course.


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