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John Cage «Fontana Mix»
John Cage, «Fontana Mix», 1958
Photography | © John Cage


 John Cage
«Fontana Mix»

«Fontana Mix» consists of a total of 20 pages of graphic materials: ten pages covered with six curved lines each, and ten sheets of transparent film covered with randomly-placed points. In accordance with a specific system, and using the intersecting points of a raster screen, two of the pages produce connecting lines and measurements that can be freely assigned to musical occurrences such as volume, tone color, and pitch. The interpreter no longer finds a score in the customary sense, but rather a treatment manual for the notation of a composition.
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(See http://www.straebel.de/praxis/text/t-cage-fontana.htm)

 

Martina Sauerwald