Ocean of Sound

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• Cage's subtle awareness of the silence which surrounds sounds is at its most refined in his compositions for prepared piano, an experiment which began as an expedient way of creating a percussion orchestra in a dance space to osmall for anything other than a piano. "Mutes of various materials are placed between the strings of the keys used," he instructed, "thus effecting transformations of the piano sounds with respect to all of their characteristics." The brief but exquisite Prelude for Meditation and Music for Marcel Duchamp, or the longer work, Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, sound sometimes Javanese, sometimes Balinese. Clashing harmonics ring out, muted wood and gang sounds hang in reverberation or shadow each other in delicate pursuits which quicken and slow, tumble over ... (查看原文)

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