Cage Teaches Us How To Listen

Into this, structure and all, anything goes. The structure was not the point. But it was practical: you could actually see that everything was happening without anything’s being done. Before such emptiness, you just wait to see what you will see. Is Rauschenberg’s mind empty, the way the white canvases are? Does that mean whatever […]

Definitions: Chance and Indeterminate

From (one of) Google’s (many) Definition(s) of Chance:

verb /CHans/

Do something by accident or without design

From Google’s Definition of Indeterminate:

adjective /ˌindiˈtərmənit/

Not certain, known, or established While reading John Cage’s Silence, one of his essays on Indeterminacy (so aptly titled) struck me as clarifying the difference between chance composition and indeterminate compositions. […]