John Cage
Cheap Imitation (LP)
LabelCramps RecordsGenreComposition
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condition (record/cover): VG (surface noise thoughout) / G+ (general wear and sleeve has been glued so that the record won't fit in the pocket).
Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeve. Cheap Imitation began as an act of devotion and became something entirely John Cage's own. Commissioned as a piano reduction of Erik Satie's Socrate - after the original arrangement fell through for copyright reasons - Cage instead applied chance operations drawn from the I Ching to transform Satie's melodic line while retaining its rhythmic structure: each pitch reselected by coin toss, the harmonic logic dissolved but the cadence preserved. The result is a work that is simultaneously an homage, a ghost, and a rigorous piece of indeterminate composition in its own right.
Format
Recorded on a rainy day, March 7 1976, at Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California.
Gatefold sleeve features liner notes in Italian, plus b&w photographs.
Inner sleeve features notes by Cage on the music (in English), plus a b&w photo of Cage on Italian TV in 1958.
Release notes
Recorded on a rainy day, March 7 1976, at Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, California. Gatefold sleeve features liner notes in Italian, plus b&w photographs. Inner sleeve features notes by Cage on the music (in English), plus a b&w photo of Cage on Italian TV in 1958.
| A1 | Band 1 | 7:14 | |
| A2 | Band 2 | 8:27 | |
| B | Solid Band | 20:30 |
- Gianni Sassi
- Art Direction
- "Blue" Gene Tyranny
- Engineer
- John Cage
- Performer, Composed By, Liner Notes
- Rhoda Nathas
- Photography By
- Umberto Padroni
- Photography By
- David Behrman
- Producer
