Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"You are not a composer, you cannot hear what you write." Messian to John Cage Julian - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:32 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] Ang: Leica Users digest V19 #180 "I have nothing to say, and I am saying it." - -- John Cage To which, Göran Bjerklow replies, "Under sportlovsveckan (v 10) är jag ledig må-ti-to-fre, dock i tjänst onsdagen 7 mars." The man is brilliant! Dan > I, for one, read each repetition of Göran Bjerklow's post, which could be > seen as the email equivalent of the work of certain early minimalist > composers, Terry Riley's "In C," and Steve Reich's early tape loop > compositions, most notably "Come out" and "It's gonna rain," immediately > come to mind. > > For those of us having problems with Mr. Bjerklow's piece, I suggest the > following approach developped by John Cage (who considered himself an > maximalist): > > If something is boring for two minutes, try it for four. > If it is still boring at four minutes, try it for eight. > If it is still boring at eight minutes, try if for sixteen. > > Continue in this fashion until it becomes interesting. > > Guy