[silence] Korean unison in other of Cage's works

[David Badagnani]

The South Korean-born komungo player/composer Jin Hi Kim, who interviewed many contemporary composers for a Korean music magazine from about 1982 to 1988 after immigrating to the U.S. in 1980, just recalled the following in this interesting email to me (see below).  Can anyone share more information about "Etcetera II/4 Orchestras"--is it recorded and is it indeed reminiscent of Korean court music?  I knew, due to Cage's own performance notes, that "Ryoanji" was inspired by the concept of "Korean unison" (this concept, as earlier discussion on this list has shown, was probably passed to Cage by Henry Cowell, who, it is believed, coined it to describe the sometimes not-quite-together attacks in Korean ritual music, which is extremely slow in tempo), but I didn't know about this work, "Etcetera II/4 Orchestras."

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Jin Hi Kim wrote, on 22 February 2009:

"Long time ago you sent me information about John Cage's Korean
Unison.  What I remember was about this is that people were blogging if
there is any proof for this.
I interviewed John Cage few times for my writing for Eumak-Dong A Music Magazine. At
that time (1989?) He was working on a new piece for Tokyo premiere, and
he mentioned <Korean unison> as slow tempo court orchestration.He said he was composing <Etcetera II/4 Orchestras> with the influence of Korean unison.I meant to tell you about this, but sorry that it took so long.  Jin--
Jin Hi Kimwww.jinhikim.com

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David Badagnani
Kent, Ohio
USA



      
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