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From: Rod Stasick <>
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Subject: [silence] Irwin Kremen (1925-2020)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:42:01 -0600
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Hi folks,

Actually, just came across this,

so I thought I’d mention it here.

I think we’re familiar with his

friendship with Cage.

Also, I’ve been spending a lot of

time with a fairly recent CD recording

of Cage’s “Reunion” realized by

Joel Chadabe, Donald Gillies, and

William Blakeney that can probably

obtained thru the Electronic Music Foundation.

It’s quite nice and it’s also made me interested

in the tactile controller called a “LinnStrument”

and the IRCAM Solo Orchestral Instruments software.

The pieces on the CD:

Game One: Marcel Duchamp vs Leon Szwarcman (Paris 1929) (9:28)

Game Two: Eduard Glass vs Marcel Duchamp (Olympiad 1933) (15:58)

Game Three: Georges Koltanowski vs Marcel Duchamp (Paris 1929) (46:07)

After a massive renovation of most of our house in 2019 that made

things very difficult from March to about a week before Christmas,

I was all ready for 2020 to come so I can finally work on new projects …

…then I was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy … so that took some of the

wind out of the sails for a while.

Anyway, hope everyone’s doing fine out there in Cageville.

It’s very quiet around here and there, so I thought I’d drop a line.

Rod

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