Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Rod <>]

Well, there are no markings for hours,
but maybe there is enough leeway in the score - 
especially at this time scale - to shift things to 
certain dates, but that, for me, is still a 
disappointment with the realization. 

A wonderfully grand opportunity
to be open to a variety of eventualities 
that would have a direct relationship to
the spatializations inherent in the score
rather than a forced attempt at time-positioning
so as to achieve a desired social effect.

Maybe there’ll be an electronic version
someday that could derive, with nanoprecision, 
an exact physical score measurement translated into 
an exact time measurement that could become a 
permanent memorial in a public setting. 
Actually depending on pairs of hands to change
tones in a small church (a lovely intimate place tho it is)
for hundreds of years might be a bit optimistic.

Rod

> On Sep 6, 2020, at 8:00 PM, s <> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>