[silence] silence Digest, Vol 81, Issue 6

[Glenn Freeman]

yes, and exactly what occurs in Eighty and several of the very last  
works (including the unfinished One13).

Daniel Wolf wrote:

> Another, related, technique is that which Cage refers to as a  
> "Japanese
> canon", another enthusiasm of Cowell's, which Cowell identified in the
> netori (modal "tuning up")  hichiriki and ryuteku passages in which a
> group of the same instruments (typically three) play through the same
> melodic material, entering canonically, but varying the rhythms so  
> that
> one instrument may sometimes be ahead of and sometimes behind the  
> others.
>
> In the adaptation of both these techniques, Cage (and Cowell) could be
> fairly characterized as identifying and isolating a single (and in the
> case of the brief netori, possibly a minor feature) consituent  
> feature of
> a traditional music and radically recontextualizing that feature as a
> central idea in a new work.

Glenn Freeman
OgreOgress productions
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