Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thuggish," Amenta said. "It was an exercise of blind, naked authority, so far from any modern method of management as to be absurd...
...What was characteristic of modern music in the 1940s was that everyone was going in his own direction," says Cage. "There was a big split between the following of Shoenberg and that of Stravinsky. But the problem was that no one understood what anyone else was saying. It was understood that everyone would say something, but no one understood what that was. So I decided to give that...
...work with the teponaxtli, an old South American--I forget if it is Mayan or Aztec--log with an 'H' cut out of it with two tongues in the middle," he says. "I trained groups of people to play those, and we had performances at the Museum of Modern Art--I think that with my work the repertoire of percussion instruments jumped from about three or four to about...
...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...
Cage has also been working on "random" lectures on the subjects of anarchy and modern artist Jasper Johns. He plans to deliver the speeches to audiences at the Richmond Museum and the Philadelphia Art Museum respectively and has also been composing a "chance" symphony for the Boston Symphony Orchestra...