Pools



Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1978
Instrumentation: For one musician with amplified, water-filled conch-shells
Duration: indeterminate
Premiere and performer(s): June 15, 1978
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This is a solo derivative of Inlets. It is a composition Cage labeled with the word "contingency", meaning "improvisation using elements in which there is a discontinuity between cause and effect". (Cage in an interview with Stuart S. Smith)

Sources: Paul van Emmerik: Thema met Variaties; David Revill: The Roaring Silence