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...Cage says that this freedom enables him to approach a more pure form of music...
...Cage's most famous compositions uses the principle of chance to explore durations of time and movements. When he composed "4:33" in 1951, Cage used the I Ching stick method to determine how long each of the piece's silence movements would...
...first played at Woodstock--in three movements, and each was completed in four minutes," Cage says. "The performer closed the piano at the beginning of each movement and after the proper amount of time had gone by, opened it to signal the end of the part...
...Cage says that because of the "silence," the "music" changes each time...
...performance was outside, so at the beginning we heard the breeze, then we heard raindrops in the second movement and by the third movement the audience had figured out what was going on and had begun talking," Cage says...