4'33 By John Cage

[eestlinc]

If you can get Sonic Youth's SYR4 double disc, they and some other artists (Dj Olive, William Winant, Christian Wolff, Christian Marclay, O'Rourke, Takehisa Kosugi, Wharton Tiers) played several of Cage's pieces: SIX (two different takes) and FOUR⁶. Some other pieces played on it are worth checking aswell.

Their performance of Four⁶ is awesome. The Christian Wolff piece Burdocks is also very nice.

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You must go to UC Santa Cruz. I attended a lecture by Cope (he guest lectured for our Computer Science department here) where he discussed quantifying certain attributes of musical phrases a composer uses, and using a database and a simple processing program to create works in the style of a composer. He used it to finish several "unfinished" works by composers in addition to having it compose more. I hear he's now using a neural-net-based program to accomplish the same in addition to learning new styles.

I do go to UCSC. You don't mean UCSC when you say "here," do you?

Cope is an insane guy. I don't know much about his work other than pretty much what you just said, but I know he's pretty famous and all. He is definitely an awesome professor as well.