The Ark playfully eavesdrops on the chance-taking excursions of six present-day dream-questers in the Cagean tradition of the unexpected and indeterminate– Patrick Clancy, Ellen Zweig, Cliff Baldwin, Jeffrey Ruckman, Ed Herrmann and Dwight Frizzell.
“During a counterpoint class at UCLA, Schoenberg sent everybody to the blackboard. We were to solve a particular problem he had given and to turn it around so he could check the correctness of the solution. I did as directed. He said, ‘That’s good. Now find another solution.’ I did. He said, ‘Another.’ Again I found one. Again he said, ‘Another.’ And so on. Finally, I said, ‘There are no more solutions.’ He said, ‘What is the principle underlying all of the solutions?'”
— John Cage from “Indeterminacy”
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Cliff Baldwin’s Unprepared Piano No. Thirty Two
In celebration of John Cage’s 108th birthday, from the series Unprepared Piano. Prepared from Cage’s original directions using brass wood screws, rubber, machine screws and furniture bolts. The album of 20 pieces from Unprepared Piano – Volume 1