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The Music of Chance
Throughout his career, Mac Low has consistently confounded the expectations of listeners and readers alike. "People are looking to poetry for an argument, a moral, a plot, and in music they're looking for the usual progression of harmonies and rhythms," Mac Low once said, explaining why audiences sometimes resist his work. "I suppose the things they expect to get aren't there and other things are."
At the center of Mac Low's project is the idea of chance. He began working with composer John Cage in 1954 with "chance operations," or methods by which a text could be transformed beyond the intent of its author. Mac Low wrote that these methods first arose "from an attempt to lessen (or even vainly to try to do away with) the hegemony of the ego of the artist in the making of the artwork."
His first chance operations came in 1955, in the form of five "biblical poems." In each poem, integers in the title signaled the number of "events" in the respective lines of the poem. An event was either a word or the "/____/" mark, which indicated a silence equal in duration to any word the reader chose. In composing the poems, Mac Low decided on the number of events in each line based on the rolls of a die. He encouraged the use of the reader's pulse rate to determine how quickly the poem would be read. In addition, if several readers were performing simultaneously, they should not be in synch--either they should read at individual tempos, or their pages should be shuffled so that they are never reading the same lines at the same time.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5812
Music list :
- Amandine - For All the Marbles
- Rykarda Parasol - Lullaby for Blacktail
- Nanang Tatang - Getting Nowhere
- Ida - Late Blues
image credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/-sel-/232166814/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/manymuses/99908818/
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