More on Cheap imitation
After my previous post on Cage’s Cheap imitation, I have been thinking more about the piece and doing some poking around. Here are some random thoughts about it.
John Cage
Essays and posts on the music of American composer John Cage (1912-1992)
Sunday playlist: Cheap imitation
This Sunday morning’s playlist was a single piece: Cage’s Cheap imitation.
Two: another approach
There’s another approach to realizing Two: completely determining everything using chance operations. I tried this out and describe the results.
Two: one approach to performance
The notation makes it clear that Cage leaves various specific aspects of the continuity of Two up to the performer. What isn’t clear is how, as a performer, one is supposed to make those decisions.
John Cage: Two (getting started)
I’m starting to work on learning John Cage’s Two for piano and flute (Frances is playing the flute part on shakuhachi). I thought I’d take a few posts to describe the process of learning the piano part.