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I spent the next year writing letters and seeing
people by appointment, all with the end in view of finding financial support
for establishing a Center of Experimental Music. This Center was to be
a place where the work with percussion could continue, and where it would
be supplemented by the results of close collaboration between musicians
and sound engineers, so that the musical possibilities might be continually
refreshed with new technological instruments. Composers were to be regularly
advised of the new instruments available, and performances were to be periodic.
Such an active relationship between music and science might be expected,
I felt, to enrich and enliven the whole field of music.
John Cage
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