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Merce Cunningham, 1919 -
July 2009
A
Merce
Cunningham quote:
"John Cage and I became interested in the use of chance in the 50's. I
think one of the very primary things that happened then was the
publication of the "I Ching," the Chinese book of changes, from which
you can cast your fortune: the hexagrams. Cage took it to work in his
way of making compositions then; and he used the idea of 64—the number
of the hexagrams —to say that you had 64, for example, sounds; then you
could cast, by chance, to find which sound first appeared, cast again,
to say which sound came second, cast again, so that it's done by, in
that sense, chance operations. Instead of finding out what you think
should follow—say a particular sound—what did the I Ching suggest?
Well, I took this also for dance.
"
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