Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Joseph Zitt <>]

Has anyone ever recorded any of the mesostics or other non-sensical texts in other languages? Would that even be possible? Listening to the recording of "Time (Three Autokus)" on Laura Kuhn's podcast yesterday, I wondered what they would sound like if they were in a language that I didn't know.

https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/e6r61m

Also: has anyone done any analysis on the way that Cage chanted the texts? It seems to me that he used a pretty consistent set of musical phrases and a narrow range of pitches for them throughout his career. In the only time I met him, just after a performance of a section of Empty Words ate MOMA, I asked him if the pitch material was composed or improvised. He said "improvised" but didn't say more

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