DISQUS

DSM · 6 months ago

"It seems to me that the most radical redefinition of music that I could think of would be one that defines 'music' without reference to sound."
--Robert Ashley, 1961, quoted in Michael Nyman's book 'Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond', p. 11. ( http://tinyurl.com/pmyjts )
http://www.robertashley.org/

Using random process (dice rolls) to decouple the resulting musical work from the 'sound' (the sounds specified by the measures that the dice rolls index) seems to meet Ashley's defn of 'radical'.

--dsm