[silence] Cage Reference Sought

[Kraig Grady]

a 'union of differences' is a very South East Asian concept.


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Mesotonal Music from:
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere:  
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_ ^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

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Glenn Freeman wrote:
> thanks caleb.
>
> so far it seems the only words cage himself wrote down (not including  
> the written manuscripts) in regard to "eighty" was to describe what  
> happens as "a unison of differences". is there anything else in regard  
> to this work or eighty-three that cage himself wrote about?
>
> Caleb Deupree wrote:
>
>   
>> In his last orchestral works, Cage continued in this vein -- a music  
>> of minute variations -- by having all the players play the same  
>> music.  In Eighty (1992) and Sixty-eight (1992) the parts for all  
>> instruments are exactly the same: the same fifteen pitches in the  
>> same fifteen time brackets.  The result is that, although the  
>> performers all play the same "melody," each plays it with a slightly  
>> different rhythm: this is what Cage called "a unison of differences."
>>     
>
> Glenn Freeman
> OgreOgress productions
> http://ogreogress.com
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