With a score of 63 idiomatic pages and 84 types of semiotic infrastructure, John Cage's Solo for Piano is an alleyway seemingly too hard to navigate.
Still, Cage reigns supreme among the post-WWII avant-gardists of his time.
And now, Sabine Liebner takes a crack at his Solo for Piano "proposal"--interpreting it in a way tailored strictly for her.
Cage's unique stochastic theories on composition (and philosophy) posit him in a realm both head-spinning and brain-churning.
The graphical structure of Solo for Piano is almost entirely inaccessible, wherein reproducing the same effect desired by Cage (and his beloved I-Ching) is an impossibility.
However, Liebner modifies Cage's notation here in an attempt to capture a better, more true impression of the late composer-cum-philosopher's work.
To wit, I urge you to pick up a copy of Sabine Liebner's interpretation of John Cage's Solo for Piano, released via Wergo Records in 2013.
If you're not familiar, here's John Cage's foremost interpreter, David Tudor, giving you but a taste.
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