6. John CageIndeterminacy
What I really like about Indeterminacy is that it’s almost an audiobook. I love to listen to it while doing something else. This is an interesting capacity of recording in general, it allows you to do stuff. Sometimes people run, they listen to music. You cook, you listen to music, or you learn while doing. This is a record for me, that is amazing, because it’s educational in a way, and also a bit silly. Again, there’s a lot of humour in John Cage, and he had this ability of being interesting and at the same time zen and picking mushrooms and doing very serious music – but then making wreckage at a show.
I discovered his way of living, the way he was using improvisation, saying important things and still singing at the same time and making music, but also not making music. I think that’s the way I see music: as a way of life.
I have the original books, it’s a beautiful object. It’s almost a book, even if it’s a record. Of course, this little place where a book turns into a record, or a record turns into a book, interests me.
I remember cutting Bartolomé’s hair while listening to this record in the mountains, and I found that there was a story inside this story. I kept hearing Isamu Noguchi’s name said by Cage, while I was looking at Noguchi’s work! I love his work, especially his sculptures. He’s dead, Cage, Noguchi too, but you have a flux of energy that appears through the recording of the voice and a sculpture that was made. It’s so magical, it’s so strange; people are not there, but they are completely there.
