[silence] Cage's Software?

[john david]

Katherine
Some one at IRCAM in Paris prepared hundreds of pages of I Ching tossings
when John & I mixed Roaratorio together, in July, 1979.  I doubt that
the program was saved.
-john david fullemann

Katherine Setar wrote:
> Dear Brian,
> 
> What an interesting question.  I can't say I know anything about Cage 
> specific use of a commercially prepared "software."  I am guessing that 
> Cage liked the process of doing his I Ching and other chance operations 
> manually, as it were, as a means of "enlightenment"--to further his 
> perceptions of sounds, but I really don't know for sure.
> 
> One place to start is to look at Cage's collaborations with Lejaren 
> Hiller.  The work HPSCHD (1969) springs to mind, which was realized on 
> the University of Illinois--Urbana's computer.  (See "Environmental 
> Abundance,"  in Kostelanetz, Richard, ed.  JOHN CAGE:  AN ANTHOLOGY (New 
> York:  Da Capo Paperback, 1970,) pp. 173-175.
> 
> I don't think the term "software" is at all appropriate to a piece from 
> 1969. Computers were pretty primitive in those days;  I assume Hiller 
> specifically wrote the program for the performance on something like IBM 
> cards.
> 
> Would Cage have collaborated with other computer-expert types?
> 
> Anybody have any better insights?
> 
> Katherine Setar
> silence-request@list.mail.virginia.edu wrote:
>> Today's Topics:
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>>    1. (no subject) (Brian B. James)
>> Hello....
>>
>> I am a student at Mills College studying with David Bernstein. I am  
>> looking for any software that Cage used for composition/chance  
>> operations/ect. Does anyone know of a place to get the software Cage  
>> used, or can anyone direct me to someone that may have copies? I am  
>> beginning to build a Cage reference application for the Macintosh.  
>> Also, I have built a John Cage Mac OSX Dashboard widget called the  
>> iCage if anybody is interested....it can be downloaded at http:// 
>> www.bbjames.com/downloads.html. Thanks...
>>
>> Brian B, James
> 
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