Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

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Le 18 mars 2020 à 16:39, David Bellows <> a écrit :

it appears that the music is
improvised from there?

Yes, but with a lot of constraints, some already mentioned by Cage, some that you can discover by making the piece : « In fact any questions that arise are to be answered by means of change operations ».

To update what I said earlier, Cage says « In memoriam Marcel Duchamp, use a hat for there (put all possible answers of a single question in it, each on a separate bit of paper, and then, not seeing which one you have, take one out). To prepare this improvisation, sixty-four small pieces of paper numbered from 1 to 64 are required »

Ninh