Composers on Mathematical Music
Subtext 3324693


. . . I used the Fontana Mix. . . . overlaying transparencies involving points and curved lines which don’t cross over themselves. A given line doesn’t cross over itself but it goes in curving, meandering ways from one side of the page to another. These curving lines are six in number and are differentiated by thickness (three are dotted) and you simply place them over the sheet with points—one sheet with points and one sheet with curved lines—and then a graph with one that is inside, and one measures the intersection of the curved lines with this straight line with reference to the graph vertically, to determine the kind of thing that would happen. The horizontal measurement gives the time. . . .

John Cage



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