Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[David Bellows <>]

I've been wondering if anyone knows how Cage generated his I Ching
results. According to Wikipedia, there are many methods like the one
coin, three coin, and yarrow stalks methods.

From things I vaguely recall from reading Cage, it seems that when he
did it manually he might have used the 3 coin method (which would have
worked with Music of Changes.)

So I'm also wondering about the software that was written for him and
whether it just generated numbers between 1 and 64 or if it simulated
one of the other methods like the 3 coin method.

I don't know if Andrew Culver still pays attention to this list, but
he/you might know?

Thanks everyone for any ideas!

Dave Bellows.
https://www.platonicmusicengine.com