R: [microsound] the Cage fire...

["Andrea Valle" <marta_andrea@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cage considered recordings as "postcards".
When asked to write a percussion piece explicitly for a recording he
composed a piece of exactly 74 minutes - CD lenght, in order to "make sense"
of the specificity of the operation.
Not to be particularly interested in anything doesn't not imply to dislike
it.
In this case, I don't think he's particularly dada.

best

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-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Peter Becker [mailto:pbecker3@xxxxxxxxxx]
Inviato: venerdi 11 luglio 2003 13.49
A: microsound
Oggetto: [microsound] the Cage fire...

Surely Cage has a large discography, though one of the largest discographies
of any composer couldn't confirm, or agree. I think Bach has him beat by a
mile, or many miles.   Cage's stance on records and his hypocrisy in having
so many in his catalog is so Cage-ian- contradictory, dada, and not taking
himself too seriously. If Cage -really- felt them to be worthless, he'd
never have made them. One does need to eat and pay the rent though. I think
his comments on records were not to be taken -too- literally.

He also said that the only 2 truths he learned at midlife were that the Sun
and orange juice were bad for you, though I'm sure he's ventured outside
from time to time.

; )

Peter

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