Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: discussion Message-ID: <4245@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 11:42:56 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.4245 Posted: Thu Jan 3 11:42:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:15:05 EST References: <6903@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 18 > A number of people were listening to Christian Wolff playing one of [Cage's] > pieces in his New York apartment. The window was open and at various > times the [played] music was drowned by traffic noise, aeroplanes passing > overhead. At the end one of the "audience" asked him to play it again > with the window shut. "Why?" asked Wolff. Obviously, because they wanted to hear what it was like with the window shut. Or is it Wolff's contention that {played piece + room noise + outside noise through shut window} is intrinsically less interesting than {played piece + room noise + outside noise through open window} ? If so, "Why?" But to back up a bit, if I were that member of the audience, I would have said, "Why not?" (He certainly couldn't say "because I played it once already".) Jeff Winslow