re- them seven diatonics a

[Tim Ware]

I'm sorry, but I thought the timing on the Cage piece was going to settle
on the correct numbers, but it didn't, so:

4'33" (definitely - I timed it:))

TDIND



On Tue, 14 May 1996 MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:

> WillL concludes:
> 
> >But Cage's silence?  Seems to me that's the awful sound after our LA 
> >movie-house
> >has had its map erased.  If I'm still around, I'll stick with "Parker's Mood,"
> >thanks.
> >
> I never thought of 4' 37" (thanks, ed.) as--silence--I always thought that what 
> happened in the piece was the creation of a frame (call it a title, call it a gesture) 
> within which whatever ambient sound occurred (in the room, in your nervous 
> system or your circulatory or digestive systems)  became the music of the piece.  
> That's why it seems to work out Cage's (democratic) idea that any sound can 
> become music in a 	musical context.  The Duchampian play  (cf. the readymade and 
> reversed readymade) on the gesture of the artist as a sufficient condition for the 
> making of--Art--up to and including its own self-subverting irony, is, for me, part 
> of the conceptual richness of the piece, and the idea, and another democratizing 
> gesture.
> 
> Sorry to delay so long in responding.
> 
> john m
> 
>