[silence] Katchie Crtwright's La Faute de la Musique

[zachary moldof]

Welcome to the list.
My initial impression of anyone interpeting Cage's works in a jazz format is
that it wouldn't materialize as something true to the concepts of Cage's
music--most jazz musicians are virtuosii to some degree, thus their approach
to a piece of Cage's music seems like it would not be well-suited. Not to
mention the fact that Cage has repeatedly expressed a negative sentiment for
jazz, "When I listen to jazz i don't it as interesting as people tell me it
is."
My secondary response is that there is no wrong way to play a piece of
Cage's music, and that is the point of it--his music is written in a format
that tends to shy away from parameters and dictation, and instead leans
towards concepts and diplomacy.
My Tertiary response is that it would have to be a group of musicians who
truly understand the essence of Cage's philosophy, not just his written
music. I think that his work can be adapted to any 'genre', but a genre is
nothing more than a set of instruments, and the manner in which sounds are
produced.
Perhaps, perhaps...

>From Upon the Surface of the Earth,
Zach.

-- 
The Earth is big, but the Earth is bigger, thus we can only hope to expand
at a relative rate.
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