Thursday, September 28, 2017

When John Cage made music with Marcel Duchamp.


The Morning News http://ift.tt/2wYTZx5

John Cage is famous for his aleatoric music, but the first composer to leave something to chance might actually have been the artist Marcel Duchamp, who published "Erratum Musical" in 1913. Later in life, Duchamp collaborated with Cage on a chess-based composition, the playing of which involved the covering or uncovering of the chessboard's 64 photoresistors.

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