Re: chance operations

Lê Quan Ninh <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:50:45 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.music.john-cage
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Hello,
If you look at the scores Child of Tree, Branches or c ¢omposed improvisation (for snare drum alone / for one-sided drums with or without jangles / for Steinberger Bass Guitar) for instance, you will have clues about the way John Cage was using the I-Ching. More, you will have an experience using it to determine parameters and will enjoy the surprises that will occur.
Indeed, to ask the right questions, or to ask them in a way that using chance operations through I-Ching can find answers, is fundamental. John Cage was once saying something like « I don’t know if I am a composer but I’m very good in asking questions ».

Ninh