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A year with The Seasons

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a generative musical year-clock, after John Cage (1947) John Cage built The Seasons from a fixed palette of chords (the gamut) and a nine-part rhythmic structure following the traditional Indian view of the year: winter as quiescence, spring as creation, summer as preservation, fall as destruction. This piece extracts the gamut and its recurring phrases from the music, then lets them recur and…

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