[silence] Petr Kotik's Umbilical Cord

[Glenn Freeman]

Sure Richard, but why enslave music to a tradition or time? Classical  
music can overcome such limitations because everything required to  
perform/experience the music is contained in the 'note record' itself.  
The question becomes, was Cage writing his final notes/sounds down  
with a certain time/style in mind, or not? Also, does such a question  
have any relationship to these ideas about 'classical' music?

Richard Friedman wrote:

> Well, they're still arguing over how to play Bach "correctly". So  
> this isn't unusual. But Bach and his friends didn't make recordings  
> while they were alive and we do have lots of contemporaneous Cage  
> recordings. So it's not quite that bad.

Glenn Freeman
OgreOgress productions
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