John Cage Silence Plagiarism Case Settled

If anything calls into question the basic assumptions of 'intellectual property', this does. I doubt Cage would've been too vehement about ownership. It seems that part of his schtick at that point was deflecting culpability from the body of the composer. But I guess he didn't see that information was too valuable a component of matter for the profiteers not to want their cut, so once he informed recorded silence with a specific meaning (or at least parameters for interpretation) it became a commodity. With Zorn's game pieces there seems to be a movement away from compositional identity, yet Cobra, as the culmination of this approach, paradoxically retains a certain formal or structural cohesion that marks it, regardless of the personalities involved. It's like a gravitational coherence of characteristics, defined more through modes of differentiation than through specific enunciation. just thought I'd spill some ideas. bob

From: Brian Hickey <brianh@emagine-media.com> To: <zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: John Cage Silence Plagiarism Case Settled Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:04:22 +0100

John Cage Silence Plagiarism Case Settled

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