<<But, I admit that Cage's chance pieces is an interesting proposition... ;)
Are there loops in chaos?>>
The dog-fucker might be off the hook here. Some
of Cage's most experimental pieces are collages
of reel-to-reel tape, in which case the music is
made using two kinds of loops: (1) the tape
mechanism itself is a loop and (2) the making of
the tape consisted of a repetitive (looped)
process of snipping pseudorandom parts of other
tapes (Cage and a few friends lounged around on
an apartment floor in Chicago and just snipped
tapes all night).
It's harder to find loops in Cage's so-called
"silent" pieces. In 4'33" the pianist opens
and closes the piano, waits, and repeats that
action 3 times, so that's a loop in the liberal
sense of the term we are using. Although Cage's
intent with the piece was to focus on the sounds
of the audience, the ventilation system, etc.,
and he regretted later in life that he had the
pianist do anything, there still remains that
loop in the piece, and Cage never wrote a
completely silent piece.
Cage also wrote a number of relatively traditional
compositions, which have the same kinds of loops
any classical music would. In fact, isn't
anything with a score loopish to some extent? I
mean, even if you score with a parametric schema,
like Cage, you still have repeated "bars" or
other graphic iterations on the page, right? And
Cage did score all of his pieces, as far as I know.
I suppose you can find loops anywhere if you're
feeling loopy enough.
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