Subject: Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.
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- From: Matthew Rogalsky <>
- To: Bob Kosovsky <>
- Cc: Bill Trigg <>, "" <>
- Subject: [silence] Re: branches
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:42:34 +0000
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I was surprised to find nothing in the archives on this topic. I am Given the time of composition, my guess is that Cage was thinking of an Cage was familiar with using phonograph cartridges on their own as contact microphones, going back to at least Cartridge Music (1960).
The type he would have used (pictured) has a hole with a set-screw, to place the stylus (or whatever other object).
Such cartridges can be directly connected to the microphone input of a mixer.
With David Tudor’s equipment collection there are four of this type of cartridge, mounted on an aluminum bars to keep them stable, with alligator clips to attach objects for amplification (no need to touch the set-screw) and a cable ending in a 1/4-inch
jack ready to plug in to a mixer. Those could possibly be the same ones Cage used for ‘Branches’, per the description on
johncage.org: "Cacti are played by plucking needles with toothpicks, amplifying their sounds via cartridge-like attachments, originally constructed by John D. Fullemann.”
best,
Matt
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- [silence] branches, Bill Trigg, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: branches, Bob Kosovsky, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: branches, Matthew Rogalsky, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: branches, Bill Trigg, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: Re: branches, Nicolás Carrasco Díaz, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: Re: Re: branches, Christopher Butterfield, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: Re: branches, Bob Kosovsky, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: Re: Re: branches, Mischa Falkenburg, 03/03/2016
- [silence] suite for toy piano, chris cutler, 03/04/2016
- [silence] Re: suite for toy piano, Caleb Deupree, 03/04/2016
- [silence] Re: Re: suite for toy piano, Rod Stasick, 03/04/2016
- [silence] Re: suite for toy piano, Caleb Deupree, 03/04/2016
- [silence] Re: Re: branches, Nicolás Carrasco Díaz, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: Re: branches, Stefano Pocci, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: branches, Bill Trigg, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: branches, Matthew Rogalsky, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: branches, Andrew Culver, 03/03/2016
- [silence] Re: branches, Bob Kosovsky, 03/03/2016
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