Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

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saluton

On 9/6/20 10:47 AM, Rod Stasick wrote:
> When you look at the list of changes,
> it is kind of surprising how often they
> do so on his birthday. Maybe it was somehow
> mathematically decided that way?
> Exactly 10 years from his birthday yesterday
> will be another change.

must be. in the score- the durations are proportional and not specified 
out side of their relative "length" to each other. on the time scale of 
this "performance" i'm sure there was a lot of leeway in choosing which 
exact date and hour a change was taking place without really affecting 
the overall dimensions of the score.

but i've not heard the story of how it was decided to play ASLSP on this 
time scale. i would suspect chance processes had something to do with it ...

and if this "performance" is to complete it will mostly rely upon people 
who have not been born yet (and even upon those whose (great, (great, 
(...))) grandparents have not been born yet).

another gift.