Zen and the Art of Software Performance John Cage and Lejaren A. Hiller Jr.’s HPSCHD (1967-1969) BY TIFFANY FUNK B.A., University of Wisconsin, 2003 M.A., University of Chicago, 2005. String Quartet in Four Parts is a string quartet by John Cage, composed in 1950.It is one of the last works Cage wrote that is not entirely aleatoric.Like Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946–48) and the ballet The Seasons (1947), this work explores ideas from Indian philosophy.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • List of works [ ] Apprenticeship period (1932–36) [ ] • Greek Ode, for voice and (1932) • First Chapter of Ecclesiastes ( The Preacher), for voice and piano (1932, possibly incomplete) • Three Easy Pieces (1. In A minor, 2. Duo in G major, 3. See also: • Sounds of Venice, for set (one performer) (1959) • Water Walk, a work for a show for one performer with a variety of objects (1959) • Cartridge Music, for amplified sounds (1960) • Music for Amplified Toy Pianos, for any number of toy pianos (1960) • Music for 'The Marrying Maiden' (music for a play), for tape (1960) • Solo for Voice 2, for solo voice or chorus (1960) • Theatre Piece, for 1 to 8 performers (1960) • WBAI (1960) – auxiliary score for performance with other works • Where Are We Going?

And What Are We Doing?, composed lecture, tapes (1960–61) • Atlas Eclipticalis for an ensemble of 86 instruments (1961–62) • Music for Carillon No. 4, for electronic instrument with accompaniment (1961) •, for any number of performers and any kind and number of instruments (1961) •, for piano and electronics (1962) •, for any number of people performing any actions (1962) • 0'00' (4'33' No. 2), solo for any performer (1962) • for any number of performers, any sounds or combinations of sounds produced by any means, with or without other activities (1963) • Electronic Music for Piano, for solo piano (or any number of pianos) with electronics (1964) • Rozart Mix, tape loops (1965) • (1965) •, for a plurality of sound systems (1966) • Music for Carillon No.

This is Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment agp118 'John Cage, Lejaren Hiller et al.' For the previous Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment,. For the next Internet Archive Avant Garde Project installment,. Take me (to the Internet Archive Avant Garde Project), Morpheus. NOTE: HPSCHD by John Cage has been deleted at the request of the. AGP118 is a complete transcription of two LPs released on the Nonesuch label in 1970 (H-71224 and H-71231). The first includes HPSCHD for harpsichords & computer generated sound tapes by John Cage and Lejaren Hiller, and String Quartet No.

2 by Ben Johnston. Canon Kh20x6 4 Krs Manual Lawn. Both works are available in other recordings, but two different AGP partisans specifically requested these original recordings of the works, which I've been assured differ materially from the recordings currently available on CD. Johnston's string quartet is one of his microtonal works, more of which can be found in AGP9.

The second features The Nude Paper Sermon: Tropes for Actor, Renaissance Consort, Chorus, and Electronics, by Eric Salzman. I remember listening to this latter work repeatedly in my youth, but I hadn't heard it in years before transcribing it for this installment. It is noteworthy among other things for being one of the earliest art works to be described as 'post-modern' (in the LP liner notes). While the use of that term in 1970 pre-dates the eventual meaning of the term, the description is apt in that the texts recited by the actor are not offered in earnest but merely as examples of the ongoing cultural chatter of the time.

Both LPs are in excellent condition, with only very occasional light tracking distortion in some of the louder vocal passages in track 3. The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the liner notes of the two LPs. I've also scanned an insert with HPSCHD on old-style computer printout paper with 1 of 10,000 sets of computer-generated instructions for producing one's own version of HPSCHD by adjusting volume, treble, and bass controls in each stereo channel every five seconds. Image Printer Pro 5 3 Keygens. That is, the liner notes say there were 10,000 such sets, but mine is numbered 12024. NOTE: This week's installment is one minute too long for an 80-minute CD. If you are burning to CD, I recommend leaving out the Johnston string quartet and including it with.