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George Brecht - Notebooks I, II, III
Published by Wallther Konig, Koln, 1991
Facsimiles of Brecht's notebooks from John Cage's class during 1958-59. link
"I can rationalize the use of random numbers, but I cannot rationalize this strangenes."
(Brecht on the work of Duchamp)
From "The Artificial Crowd"
Contents of pack of 3 of "Word fusion" project: "Randomly selected word sequences from random books on my shelf."
Electronic Music: "Music composed for the loud-speaker."
"A light-sound piece in which the lights and sounds are relatively independent."
"A set of:
- signal cards
- amplitude cards
- duration cards
- delay cards
- sound source cards
These are distributed at random, independently, then juxtapopsed."
"Hang words in a room. A room poem."
"If chance implies uncertainty, what are we uncertain about?
1) Order of the elements (automatic)
2) Length of the piece (a function of 1. above). Is a function of a chance process always a change process?"
"Order in a musical composition:
From [Water Yam], Lebeer-Hossmann re-edition, 1986.
Impossible effort
Do 1.
Do 2.
-23.7.1958