Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Philip Thomas wrote:

> Does anyone have a PDF or similar of the Art Lange interview with Cage from 
> 1978?

This query reminds me of a project I wish the Cage Trust would consider: a 
searchable database of all of Cage's texts.

Think of a Google or HathiTrust search for copyrighted texts.  You get the 
sentence in context with an explanation of where it is found, and that's it. 
U.S. Courts have found this to be legitimately within fair use.

Wouldn't it be a useful tool of all of Cage's writings were in a searchable 
database that anyone could query to find references for particular quotes? 
All those queries of half-remembered quotes could be directed to the database 
and the correct quote found (or proved to have not come from Cage).

I'm thinking of it just as a quick means to find quotes, but I'm sure other 
researchers could think of even more creative uses of such a database.

How much more legitimate such a project could be under the aegis of the Cage 
Trust.  (I hope you're listening Laura - and hi!)


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