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John Cage, Harvard's Norton Lecturer this year, however, makes it a point to say nothing in his lectures. Relying on chance combinations determined by the I Ching principle, Cage arranges words and letters in a random fashion to create a speech that indicates, as he says, his "nonintention...
...Norton Lectures...
...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...
Famous for introducing randomness in his musical compositions, the avant-garde composer John Cage took his talents to the next logical step when he delivered the first of his six Norton lectures in almost entirely randomly arranged phrases...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for 1988-89, the 76-year old Cage joins such greats as T.S. Eliot and Leonard Bernstein in giving the lectures...