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Thursday, August 30, 2007

By focusing on rhythm and timbre instead of melody, John Cage could make music out of just about anything. Tonight we sample his 1941 collaboration with Lou Harrison for percussion orchestra, "Double Music."

24:33 on WNYC2: A John Cage Festival

John Cage and Lou Harrison's "Double Music"

Cage and Harrison used fairly traditional percussion instruments for this work, with the exception of brakedrums (an "instrument" that both composers were especially fond of). Using a predetermined number of measures and a mathematical "road map" as their guide, Harrison and Cage wrote their parts independently, with Cage writing the ...

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The Final Performance

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