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

[Brian Brandt]

Dear David

"Etcetera I/4 Orchestras" was recorded on Mode 86:
http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/086cage.html
Unfortunately this title is out of stock at the moment because we are 
out of the printed matter (books and inlays). Reprinting the books is 
the most expensive aspect of repressing a CD or DVD, and some titles 
suffer this fate for a while due to cash flow. However, you should be 
able to find it on iTunes or some other service where the Mode catalog 
is available as a download.

Regards
Brian Brandt



David Badagnani wrote:
> 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."
>
> *******************
>
> 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 Kim
> www.jinhikim.com <http://www.jinhikim.com>
>
> --
> David Badagnani
> Kent, Ohio
> USA
>
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