Re: [microsound] Cage's random processes

[Geoff Farina <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also Michael Nyman's "Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond" has a lot of
info on Cage's composition process throughout the book.

Geoff Farina

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, !IC�#�_I [�J}� wrote:

> i wouldnt recommend cage's own writings on his processes. there are some 
> descriptions in _Silence_ of his compositional processes in writing the 
> Music for Piano (a lesser known work), but theyre not very clear. James 
> Pritchett's _The Music of John Cage_ might be a better place to turn for the 
> info you seek, as it is the first, and probably the only so far, text to 
> treat Cage as first and foremost a *composer*. There are some painstaking 
> descriptions of process there, though i dont always agree with Pritchett's 
> conclusions about Cage as an artist.
> 
> indeterminately yours,
> 
> phil
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