[silence] New member from france

[Lê Quan Ninh]

Le 19 oct. 08 à 23:21, Nicolas MOREAU a écrit :

>  i do not have a prepared
> piano at home (unfortunately) but i wish one day i have one.

Preparations are to be done by the interpreter in a regular piano (not  
uprigth though).

Books in french :

Daniel Charles & John Cage : Pour les Oiseaux (Editions de Lherne)  
épuisé...
Daniel Charles : Gloses sur John Cage (Editions Desclée de Brouwer)
Richard Kostelanetz : Conversations avec John Cage (Editions des Syrtes)
Jean-Yves Bosseur : John Cage (Editions Minerve)
John Cage : Une année dès lundi, Conférences et Ecrits (Editions  
Textuel)

These books are a good entrance in John Cage's philosophpy, esthetics,  
etc.

But also, of course :
John Cage : Journal, Comment rendre le monde meilleur (on ne fait  
qu'aggraver les choses) (Editions Héros Limite)
John Cage : Silence, Conférences et Ecrits (Editions Héros Limite)
About these two, see my article in french here : http://www.lequanninh.net/?v=textes&id_texte=25&lang=fr

> What kind of compositional technique did he use ?

Many. One the most famous one was "chance operations" using the I- 
Ching tossing method to define the musical parameters. An other one  
was using the accidents on the paper sheet.

Ninh

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