[silence] Cage and "personal taste"

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Cage discusses why he changed words in the tapes accompanying I-IV,
the Norton Lectures. I can dig them out an transcribe, if it is
essential.

On 2/20/07, Dionisis Boukouvalas <paistinpotamia@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In a recent post (the Cage-OuLiPo series) I read that Cage changed the
> results according to his taste. Is that true? This sound contrary to his
> want for objectivity, and, exactly, the avoidance of his "personal taste".
> It is a matter of great interest to me, since I am actually working on my
> master thesis where I compare different aleatory approaches. Xenakis for
> one, did change the results according to his taste. Did Cage also do that?
>
> As much as I know, his taste is limited to the desicion of the frame into
> which chance is going to operate. E.g. how many arias / singer in Europera
> 3. But did he change things afterwards?
>
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