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Article: Apolemology, apamphlegmatic pamphlet. (In Memoriam John Cage)
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- June 22, 1993
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..., Musical Instruments are the depository of a memory which roots musical practice in a limited circle of possibilities, in a context already determined, instruments do not change as quickly as ideas since they do not float like sounds and thoughts in the elusive air, but are inscribed concretely in the inertia of their physicality, the actors then can change ideas all the time, but the instruments resist and remain the moderating ambassador to the listeners, the changing ideas being only able to be applied to fixed objects that cancel any inclinations for real change, that confirm on the contrary the constraints of the norms, the opening of the musical field to all ...