{"id":781,"date":"2012-01-27T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T12:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2012-01-27T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T12:22:41","slug":"with-a-nod-at-john-cage-leave-no-traces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/with-a-nod-at-john-cage-leave-no-traces\/","title":{"rendered":"With A Nod At John Cage: Leave No Traces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leave No Traces<\/a> (4.7 MB to download, in the iTunes\/iPod MPEG format, opens in a new window)<\/p>\n

All I needed to make the sounds for composing this music were the two pieces of common Cork City Street Litter which I rescued recently to become musical instruments, a few pebbles, and a Superball mallet. The Altoids Tin supplies the “Timpani” rolls – everything else is played on the Wok.<\/p>\n

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There is currently (Janury 28th\/29th 2o12) a series of events on in Cork City to celebrate the work of John Cage. 2012 is the John Cage Centenary Year. I disagree strongly with some of his ideas, especially about the role of the performer and the composer. <\/em>However, I respect him and his work highly and I regard him as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, a true revolutionary. I have\u00a0 been privileged to be asked to perform his music while I was still at college.<\/p>\n

To determine the spacing and pacing of the beats on the wok, I used a random procedure, removing my own preferences and prejudices from the process of composing the music. This is something which Cage proposes and with which I disagree as a general approach to composing pieces of music. I work a lot with abstract atonal and arythmic textures, though, and here I often find that my own preferences get in the way and impose limits on what I can do. Removing them in such cases sometimes seems to result in more exciting and “organic” sounding music, sometimes with an element of suspense which would take me a long time and much trial and error to create with deliberation.<\/p>\n

Another piece of music I composed recently for this combination of instruments is Scythian Chit-Chat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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