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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: discussion
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 11:42:56 EST
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> 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