[NewMusic] Cage's Sixth Chord

[Ron Lettuce]

Is it just me or does this just BEG to be the target of some DaDa-ism...L.H.O.O.Q...
Heck, at 600 years...if the last 600 years are anything they'll be extremely lucky if it remains in the same hands (or decendants of the same hands)...
wasn't Germany part of the Roman Empire 600 years ago under the Palaeologus-es-es?
http://historymedren.about.com/library/atlas/natmapce1360.htm
They will have none of this silly 20th century music in New Constantanople...or is that New Istanbul, heck it may be New Byzantium by then...

lettuce

----- Original Message ----
From: lx rudis <lx.rudis at gmail.com>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 5:12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Cage's Sixth Chord

boy howdy.

there's something horribly fatalistic about this piece, and the way it's
being memorialized.

...can't really call this a 'performance'.  'management exercise' seems a
bit more accurate, although i've no idea how they intend to manage it to its
conclusion.  how's it being financed?

and after considering its original brisk 29minutes [original playtime of the
piece in question], i defy most 'casual listeners' to 'know' a piece of
music...of course, cage gets the last laugh; his own definitions seem to me
to exclude the notion of anyone knowing much of anything, ever.

i suppose there's justification in its 'just being'....but that is such a
shallow pit to mine, and i believe it was already well mined-out back in the
60s when people like lamonte young and terry riley were working on 'long
time' pieces.

somehow i can't see this application of this piece being a 'labor of love'.
it smells like an administrative stunt to me.  the work of one or more
underemployed would-be philosophers with nothing to say.

it just doesn't sit right with me.  there, i've said it.  anyone else feel
this way?
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