Word: chinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cage's lectures are readings of strings of phrases randomly assembled by computer out of sources Cage selects. The program is based on the "I Ching" principle, taken from an ancient Chinese text on the mechanisms of chance...
Experimental composer and Norton Eliot Lecturer John Cage confused a Sanders Theater audience of more than 150 people yesterday when he delivered a speech written according to the "I Ching" principle...
...program is based on an ancient Chinese text called I Ching, a work that explored mechanisms of chance...
...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...
...most recently Cage has been composing his Norton lectures. He says that he has incorporated the principles of I Ching into a computer program that simulates the "binary probability function" produced by tossing the sticks. Computers can perform the random operations and interpret the results much faster than humans, Cage says. "It is the most ancient and very modern mechanism and is in relation to all numbers," he says...