quoted 17 lines From: "Kevin Ryan @" <i__oo__@hotmail.com>
> From: "Kevin Ryan @" <i__oo__@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [idm] Re: loopbuster
> Message-ID: <F277f2LTrpwACkWHZqY00000de6@hotmail.com>
>
> <<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).