Cage

KG wrote in MMM:

>
>gain. A few days later i found myself enjoying Cartridge music. He some
>how does the noise thing better than any one else. It appears he really
>understood chance in a way that escapes most.
>

It is interesting that Cage (as far as I've read) hated improvisation and
disliked jazz, generally speaking. It was kind of his antithesis: a
music based to a large extent on ingrained habits and knowledge (plus or
minus some inspiration now and then . . . )

So the approach in cartridge music and other improvised pieces was to
present the performer with something (an "instrument") that he/she had no
experience or knowledge about. With a piece piece like cactus-music, what
happens is that the performer gradually learns to play the "instrument",
but by the time it's learned, the instrument itself has disintegrated.

Well, one may disagree with his opinion of improvised music, but I think
it's an interesting approach. Sometimes, the less improvisors know what
they're doing, the better the outcoming music. . . .