02 April 2009

John Cage - Renga

Check out Cage's work Renga!! First the 'prepared piano' and now the 'underprepared score'..

Nah, certainly not underprepared at all.. just that so much of the musical decisions is left to the performers!! Perhaps I think this work is super cool cos it is very structured and well-planned for a piece of Aleatory Music and at the same time there's so much space for improv/interpretation for each individual in the orchestra.

It's so exciting it makes me feel so ticklish all over.. can't wait to hear YTSO's performance of this piece. :)

PS. Wonder what are some other great works catagorised under Aleatory Music?

2 comments:

Simone Sassu said...

Thank you very much for this post. I'm organizing a multi-performative event with several Cage's materials, and these indications are very useful to me. If I'm looking for the score of "Renga". If I come out in finding it, I think that it will be surely chosen.
Simone Sassu

Joyce said...

Thank you for your comment. All the best for your event and hope you find the score. :)