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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: In defense of John Cage
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Date: Thu, 3-May-84 11:55:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 11:55:15 1984
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> ... I don't think human involvement is a prerequisite for art.
> My own work with computer music has produced some beautiful results
> in which I was involved as programmer, but definitely not as artist.
> Where did the art come from then?  From the random number routine,
> from the chips, it doesn't matter.  Same principle as Cage, but
> more pleasing to the ear.
> 
> David P. Anderson (anderson@uwvax)

Your own work, you say.  I assume this means that you gave instructions
to the computer rather than walking up to a computer console and recording
whatever sounds you heard.  Furthermore, you listened to the result, ordered
it, and made a decision about whether to call it YOUR work of art.  The
difference between experiencing art and experiencing nature is that nature is
the result of nautral forces, and art is a construct resulting from human
decision-making and involvement.
-- 
"An argument is an intellectual process.  It isn't the automatic gainsaying of
	what the other person says."
"... Can be."					Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr