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mcc
@dryad.technology

The point of John Cage's 4'33" was not that the music is silence but that the experienced sound of the piece will naturally be filled in by random sounds in the natural environment, pages turning on the piano, people shifting in their seats; the first public performance of 4'33" was held in a forest

mcc@dryad.technology

What I listened to today: "Nagra SN demo with Modern Sounds Pluto v3", troy mckaskle A musician records every meticulous step of making a short 40-second retro-synth motif, running a modern aleatoric unit into a 1970s vintage portable tape unit to saturate the waves www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX6a...

youtube.comNagra SN demo with Modern Sounds Pluto v3YouTube video by troy mckaskle
mcc
@dryad.technology

Cage has written about this but there's a very interesting explication of the idea at the start of "Indeterminacy 3"; I highly recommend Indeterminacy

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