Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Joseph Zitt <>]

This sounds wonderful to me, and we certainly have the skill set among us to do the task. And I suspect that, as compared to some data analysis tasks, the text base isn't all that huge. I'd be eager to help (if we get the Cage Trust's blessings, of course) if I'd have any useful skills.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Eric Theise <> wrote:

With university-based resources it may also take a very long time.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 5:14 PM, <> wrote:

Hi Eric,

I confesss I've done this - not with Cage but with another music author whose writings fascinate me. In this day and age of text mining, it's really the way to move ahead with research.

But I would much rather first have the blessing and go-ahead from the Cage Trust.  And perhaps with university-based resources, a really good database could be constructed.


Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Eric Theise wrote:

Hi Bob,

This is something I've considered building, at least for Cage's books, but
always hesitated at the combination of the work involved and the fear that
a copyright take down order would render all the work useless.

Shall we convene a small silence task force? Membership open to anyone
equipped with a scanner and the ability to run tesseract-ocr?

Eric


On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:38 PM, <> wrote:

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!)


Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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