John Cage / Reading • David Tudor / Music -- Indeterminacy 2xLP

New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music

Original 1959 US release on Folkways Records (catalog # FT 3704, blue labels with silver print), with booklet.

Late in September in 1958 I was in Stockholm in a hotel. I set about writing the present lecture which I was obliged to give a week later at the Brussels Fair. I recalled a remark made years before by David Tudor that I should make a talk that was nothing but stories. The idea was appealing when he gave it to me but I had never acted on it. A few weeks before, in Darmstadt, Karlheinz Stockhausen had said, "I'll publish your Brussels talk in Die Reihe." I replied, "You'd better wait and see what it is I write." He said, "No matter what it is, I'll publish it." My intention in putting 90 stories together in an unplanned way is to suggest that all things, sounds, stories (and, by extension, beings) are related, and that this complexity is more evident when it is not over-simplified by an idea of relationship in one person's mind. Most of the stories are things that happened that stuck in my mind. Others I read in books and remembered, those for instance, from Kwang-Tse and Sri Ramakrishna. The 2nd, 15th, 16th, 46th, and 75th stories are to be found somewhere in the literature surrounding Zen. David Tudor: piano, whistles, tape machines, and amplified slinky.

David Tudor plays material from his part of the Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-58), using tracks from the Fontana Mix (1958-59) as noise elements where these arae notated in Concert

Tracks:

A Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic Music 22:30 B Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic Music 22:30 C Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic Music 22:30 D Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic Music 22:30 Credits: Artwork By [Cover Design] - Ronald Clyne Performer [Music] - David Tudor Performer [Reading] - John Cage Photography - David Gahr Producer - John Cage , Moses Asch Notes: Includes booklet.

CONDITION: Cover G- / Vinyl VG++   ex-library copy where the box is all taped up but the records have not seen much play and do no have much wear -- box has stickers and all seams and corners have been taped up, the tape has yellowed a lot with age; booklet has a sticker and a few crossed-out ink stamps, otherwise fine; records show only a little wear and a few very light surface scratches, a couple sides are VG+, a couple are closer to NM, two labels have stickers with wording crossed-out -- plays well with a little surface noise in parts but no major problems.

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