In an indeterminate place

Com­posed in 1956, Radio Music is Cage’s sec­ond work for radio, the first being Imag­i­nary Land­scape No. 4 from 1951. Guy de Bièvre has made some inter­est­ing com­ments about con­tem­po­rary per­for­mances of Radio Music, which are prob­lema­tized by the changes, tech­no­log­i­cal and oth­er­wise, that the medium has under­gone since the time the piece was cre­ated, claim­ing that it is not pos­si­ble to give a his­tor­i­cally accu­rate per­for­mance of the work, in other words to make Radio Music sound as it did at the time it was composed.

Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Music, Radio

Tagged: electronic music, indeterminacy, John Cage, radio art, sound collage